Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
BEL KAUFMANPeople ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
More Bel Kaufman Quotes
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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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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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If a teacher wants to know something why doesn’t she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she’s the teacher!
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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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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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Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.
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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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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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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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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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