Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
BEL KAUFMANI 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.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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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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Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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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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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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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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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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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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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