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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Bel Kaufman

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
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
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
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
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
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
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
“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
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
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 am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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Morning Sleep Writing
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
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
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells

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