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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.

Bel Kaufman

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.
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People Teachers Trying
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
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.
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Angry Envious Laughing Sad
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
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
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 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
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
One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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Dream School Tree
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
“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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Book Experimental Level Mindset
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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Mind Needs Teacher

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.

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