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!
BEL KAUFMANIf 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!
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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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I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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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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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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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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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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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.
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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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