Bel Kaufman Short Quotes

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

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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

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

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When I had asked why they were taking English, a boy said: "To help us in real life."

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"Why did you fail me? I didn't do nothing!" The reply, of course, is: "That's just it."

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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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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 had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

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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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Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

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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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My words never reached him; I could almost hear them drop, one by one, like so many pebbles against a closed window.

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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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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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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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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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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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