Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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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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I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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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 had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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 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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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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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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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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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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