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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.

Bel Kaufman

“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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Cops Fight Relationship Stuck
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology School System
Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Collapse Erratic Time
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
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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Broken Reading School
One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have “windows with trees in them.
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Dream School Tree
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
“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
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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Education Jobs Teaching
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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Children Differences Want
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
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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Art Children Reading
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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Honorable Prom Senior
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil’s environment who treats him with respect.
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Adult Environment Teacher

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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