I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
BEL KAUFMANEducation is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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“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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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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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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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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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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