Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
BEL KAUFMANI had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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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 heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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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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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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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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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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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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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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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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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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