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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.

Bel Kaufman

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
“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
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
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
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
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
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
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
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
My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.
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Building Good Moning Notion
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
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
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
And that’s it; that’s why I want to teach; that’s the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
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Children Differences Want

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