The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn’t it a magnificent day today?
BEL KAUFMANChildren are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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“Language Arts Dept.” is the English office; “literature based on child’s reading level and experiential background” means that’s all they’ve got in the Book Room; “non-academic-minded” is a delinquent; and “It has come to my attention” means you’re in trouble.
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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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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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 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 had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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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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