I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
BEL KAUFMAN“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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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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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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Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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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.
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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 are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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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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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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“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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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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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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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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