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.
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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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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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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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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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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“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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