Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
BEL KAUFMANThe heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.
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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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And that’s it; that’s why I want to teach; that’s the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
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If a teacher wants to know something why doesn’t she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she’s the teacher!
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“Let it be a challenge to you” means you’re stuck with it; “interpersonal relationships” is a fight between kids; “ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline” means call the cops.
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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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