Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
BEL KAUFMANTo the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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“Let it be a challenge to you” means you’re stuck with it; “interpersonal relationships” is a fight between kids; “ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline” means call the cops.
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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 suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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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 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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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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Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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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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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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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 like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with 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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