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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

Bel Kaufman

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
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
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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Children Differences Want
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
BEL KAUFMAN

Cliche Language Young
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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Moments Tick Today
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
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Laughing Laughter Sadness
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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Honorable Prom Senior
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
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
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
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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Building Good Moning Notion
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
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
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

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