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

Bel Kaufman

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.
BEL KAUFMAN

Age Firsts Want
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
“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
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
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
BEL KAUFMAN

Distance Perspective Sense Of Humor
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
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
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
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
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
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
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
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
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer

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

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