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 KAUFMANI suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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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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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“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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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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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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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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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 had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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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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“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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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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