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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

Bel Kaufman

… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
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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Long Teaching Writing
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
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
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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Different Inspiring Long
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche Language Young
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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Building Good Moning Notion
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
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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Cheater Day Next Real
I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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Bad End Good Suggest
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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Morning Sleep Writing
“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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Book Experimental Level Mindset
The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Heart Mind Reason
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

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