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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.

Bel Kaufman

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
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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Moments Tick Today
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
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Morning Sleep Writing
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
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
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
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 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
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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Mind Needs Teacher
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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Honorable Prom Senior
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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Different Inspiring Long
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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Morning Mother Summer
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.

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