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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?

Bel Kaufman

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
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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Building Good Moning Notion
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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Moments Tick Today
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
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
Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.
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People Teachers Trying
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
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
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
“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
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
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer

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