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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.

Bel Kaufman

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
… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Good Teacher Teaching
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children Connoisseurs Value
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
Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge Leader School
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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Listening Looks Teacher
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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Mind Needs Teacher
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’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
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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Distance Perspective Sense Of Humor
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
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Heart Kindness Volunteer
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread People Shells
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
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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Expression Love Self
I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don’t have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don’t want to do it. What a liberating word.
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Age Firsts Want

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.

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