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!
BEL KAUFMANYou can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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 preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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The clerical work is par for the course. “Keep on file in numerical order” means throw in wastebasket. You’ll soon learn the language.
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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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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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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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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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… 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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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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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 like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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