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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

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
BEL KAUFMAN

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

Education Jobs Teaching
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
BEL KAUFMAN

Heart Kindness Volunteer
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
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
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Distance Perspective Sense Of Humor
“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
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don’t have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don’t want to do it. What a liberating word.
BEL KAUFMAN

Age Firsts Want
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
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
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
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
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
BEL KAUFMAN

Discovery Mind Teacher

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