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

Bel Kaufman

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
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
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
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
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
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 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
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
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
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
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
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

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