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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.

Bel Kaufman

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
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
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
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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Art Children Reading
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
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
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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Morning Mother Summer
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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Long Teaching Writing
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Distance Perspective Sense Of Humor
I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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Bad End Good Suggest
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
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
“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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Cops Fight Relationship Stuck
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System

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