Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
BEL KAUFMANChildren are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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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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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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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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To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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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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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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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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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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