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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

The clerical work is par for the course. “Keep on file in numerical order” means throw in wastebasket. You’ll soon learn the language.
BEL KAUFMAN

Art Children Reading
And that’s it; that’s why I want to teach; that’s the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
BEL KAUFMAN

Children Differences Want
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
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
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
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
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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Cheater Day Next Real
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
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
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 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
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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Angry Envious Laughing Sad
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
BEL KAUFMAN

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