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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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.
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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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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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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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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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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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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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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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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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