You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.
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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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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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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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
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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’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.
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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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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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