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!
BEL KAUFMANNever mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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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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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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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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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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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“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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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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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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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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And that’s it; that’s why I want to teach; that’s the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
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