Quotes by Bel Kaufman - Page 1

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
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Cliche
Language
Young
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Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.
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Time
Collapse
Erratic
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The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.
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Heart
Mind
Reason
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Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.
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Expression
Love Is
Self
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Bread
People
Shells
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... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.
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Teacher
Good Teacher
Teaching
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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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Mythology
School
School System
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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Kindness
Giving
Heart
Volunteer
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Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
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Knowledge
Leader
School
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Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
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Children
Connoisseur
Values
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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.
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Teacher
Adults
Environment
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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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Teacher
Mind
Needs
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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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Distance
Perspective
Sense Of Humor
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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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Honorable
Prom
Senior
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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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Dream
School
Tree
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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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Education
Jobs
Learning
Teaching
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The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?
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Moments
Tick
Today
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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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Teacher
Discovery
Mind
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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.
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Children
Differences
Want
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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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Broken
Reading
School
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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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Inspiring
Different
Long
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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
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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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Teacher
Listening
Looks
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Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.
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Teacher
People
Trying
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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
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Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.
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Laughing
Laughter
Sadness
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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
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But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.
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Commitment
Thinking
Touching
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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. I suggest just Good and Bad at the end of the term on report cards. Or maybe nothing. Frank Allen
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Cheater
Next Day
Real
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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. 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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Vacation
Morning
Mother
Summer
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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. "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; "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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Art
Children
Reading
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