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.
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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I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don’t have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don’t want to do it. What a liberating word.
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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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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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“Let it be a challenge to you” means you’re stuck with it; “interpersonal relationships” is a fight between kids; “ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline” means call the cops.
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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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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 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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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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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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