Bel Kaufman - Teacher Quotes

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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!

Bel Kaufman
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

Bel Kaufman
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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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

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You teachers are all alike, dishing out crap and expecting us to swallow it and then give it back to you, nice and neat, with a place in it for the mark to go in. But you're even phonier than the others because you put on this act — being a dame you know how — and you stand there pretending that you give a damn. Who you kidding?
We're dirt to you, just like you're dirt to the fatheads and whistle-blowers who run this jail, and they're dirt to the swindlers and horn-tooters who run the school system.

Bel Kaufman
I don't allow anyone to talk to me like that.
So you're lucky — you're a teacher.

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Like most chairmen, he teaches only one class of Seniors; the most experienced teachers are frequently promoted right out of the classroom!

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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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Good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

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