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.
BEL KAUFMANTeachers 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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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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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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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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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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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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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 suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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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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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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