“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 KAUFMANThe 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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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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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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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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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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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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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.
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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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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 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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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