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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

Bel Kaufman

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 KAUFMAN

Children Differences Want
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Distance Perspective Sense Of Humor
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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Mind Needs Teacher
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
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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Angry Envious Laughing Sad
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
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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Listening Looks Teacher
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
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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Broken Reading School
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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Different Inspiring Long
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
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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Morning Mother Summer
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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Art Children Reading

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

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