The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
BEL KAUFMANMythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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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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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with 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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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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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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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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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 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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“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 had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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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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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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