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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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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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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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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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We got this jerky sub. she don't know a thing and she's trying to teach it.
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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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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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Born:
May 10, 1911
Died:
July 25, 2014
(aged 103)
Bio:
Bella "Bel" Kaufman was an American teacher and author, best known for writing the 1965 bestselling novel, Up the Down Staircase.
Known for:
Up the Down Staircase (1964)
Love, Etc. (1979)
La Tigresse: And Other Short Stories (2012)
Love, Etc.: A Novel (1979)
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