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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

Bel Kaufman

“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
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
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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Different Inspiring Long
Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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Discovery Mind Teacher
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
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
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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Honorable Prom Senior
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
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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Listening Looks Teacher
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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Mind Needs Teacher
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
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Laughing Laughter Sadness
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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Age Firsts Want
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value

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