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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

Bel Kaufman

“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
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
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
“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
My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.
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Building Good Moning Notion
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
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
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
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
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
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
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
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
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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