A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.
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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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I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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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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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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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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 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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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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