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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.

Bel Kaufman

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.
BEL KAUFMAN

Building Good Moning Notion
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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Discovery Mind 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.
BEL KAUFMAN

Age Firsts Want
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
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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Listening Looks Teacher
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
BEL KAUFMAN

Knowledge Leader School
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
BEL KAUFMAN

Good Teacher Teaching
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
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
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
BEL KAUFMAN

Heart Kindness Volunteer
The clerical work is par for the course. “Keep on file in numerical order” means throw in wastebasket. You’ll soon learn the language.
BEL KAUFMAN

Art Children Reading
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
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
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.
BEL KAUFMAN

Broken Reading School
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells

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