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I 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.

Bel Kaufman

… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
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
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
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
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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Morning Mother Summer
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
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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Cheater Day Next Real
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
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
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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Different Inspiring Long
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
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
“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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Cops Fight Relationship Stuck

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