I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
BEL KAUFMANEducation is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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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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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.
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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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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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The heart has its reasons; it’s the mind that’s suspect.
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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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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Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It’s the skim milk that needs good teachers.
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I like the word OLD. Not senior, that’s for proms. Older? Older than whom? ‘Old’ is honorable and ripe
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Education can’t make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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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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… good teachers, like Tolstoy’s happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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