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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

Bel Kaufman

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
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
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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Discovery Mind Teacher
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
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
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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Education Jobs Teaching
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
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.
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Broken Reading School
“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
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

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

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