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.
BEL KAUFMANThe heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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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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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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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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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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’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.
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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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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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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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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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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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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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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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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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