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 KAUFMANI’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.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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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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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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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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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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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’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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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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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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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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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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