Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
BEL KAUFMANI suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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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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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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“Language Arts Dept.” is the English office; “literature based on child’s reading level and experiential background” means that’s all they’ve got in the Book Room; “non-academic-minded” is a delinquent; and “It has come to my attention” means you’re in trouble.
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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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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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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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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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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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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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