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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe

Bel Kaufman

“Language Arts Dept.” is the English office; “literature based on child’s reading level and experiential background” means that’s all they’ve got in the Book Room; “non-academic-minded” is a delinquent; and “It has come to my attention” means you’re in trouble.
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Book Experimental Level Mindset
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
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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Age Firsts Want
“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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Cops Fight Relationship Stuck
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
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
Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That’s not an education.
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Cheater Day Next Real
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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People Teachers Trying
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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Angry Envious Laughing Sad
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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Bad End Good Suggest
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
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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Dream School Tree

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