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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

Bel Kaufman

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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Children Differences Want
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
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
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
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
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
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
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
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.
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Building Good Moning Notion
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
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
The clerical work is par for the course. “Keep on file in numerical order” means throw in wastebasket. You’ll soon learn the language.
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Art Children Reading
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
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
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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