Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
BEL KAUFMANThe preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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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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I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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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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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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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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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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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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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.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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