Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
BEL KAUFMANI 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.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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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Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months’ summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect.
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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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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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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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“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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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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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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