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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

Bel Kaufman

Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
BEL KAUFMAN

Discovery Mind Teacher
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
BEL KAUFMAN

Knowledge Leader School
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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Broken Reading School
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That’s not an education.
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Cheater Day Next Real
I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.
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Long Teaching Writing
“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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Cops Fight Relationship Stuck
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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Listening Looks Teacher
To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months’ summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect.
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Morning Mother Summer
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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Laughing Laughter Sadness
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Distance Perspective Sense Of Humor
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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Children Differences Want
I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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Bad End Good Suggest
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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Education Jobs Teaching
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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Honorable Prom Senior
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher

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