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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.

Bel Kaufman

The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
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
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
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
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
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
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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Dream School Tree
I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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Bad End Good Suggest
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
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.
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Age Firsts Want
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
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 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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