I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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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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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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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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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Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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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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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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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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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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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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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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