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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?

Bel Kaufman

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
BEL KAUFMAN

Knowledge Leader School
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
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
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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Different Inspiring Long
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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Moments Tick Today
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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Discovery Mind Teacher
The clerical work is par for the course. “Keep on file in numerical order” means throw in wastebasket. You’ll soon learn the language.
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Art Children Reading
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
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
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
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
BEL KAUFMAN

Distance Perspective Sense Of Humor

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