Bel Kaufman Quotes

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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.

  Bel Kaufman

  Laughter, Sadness, Laughing

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

  Bel Kaufman

  Education, Jobs, Teaching

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.

  Bel Kaufman

  Children, Connoisseur, Values

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

  Bel Kaufman

  School, Knowledge, Leader

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• The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

  Bel Kaufman

  Heart, Mind, Reason

  Bel Kaufman (1964). “Up the down staircase”

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• Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

  Bel Kaufman

  Teacher, Discovery, Mind

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.256, Open Road Media

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• Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

  Bel Kaufman

  Love Is, Self, Expression

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections”, p.111, Open Road Media

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

  Bel Kaufman

  Teacher, Mind, Needs

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.203, Open Road Media

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

  Bel Kaufman

  Distance, Perspective, Sense Of Humor

  BEL KAUFMAN (1964). “UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE”

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• The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today?

  Bel Kaufman

  Today, Moments, Tick

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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.

  Bel Kaufman

  Reading, School, Broken

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.262, Open Road Media

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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.

  Bel Kaufman

  Teaching, Writing, Long

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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.

  Bel Kaufman

  Children, Differences, Want

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.193, Open Road Media

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• Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

  Bel Kaufman

  Time, Erratic, Collapse

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.109, Open Road Media

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• When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.

  Bel Kaufman

  Kindness, Heart, Volunteer

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• People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

  Bel Kaufman

  People, Shells, Bread

  "At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character" by Joseph Berger, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

  Bel Kaufman

  Senior, Prom, Honorable

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• To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

  Bel Kaufman

  Language, Cliche, Young

  BEL KAUFMAN (1964). “UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE”

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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

  Bel Kaufman

  Real, Cheater, Next Day

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.381, Open Road Media

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

  Bel Kaufman

  Teacher, Adults, Environment

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.255, Open Road Media

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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.

  Bel Kaufman

  Summer, Mother, Morning

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.114, Open Road Media

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

  Bel Kaufman

  School, Mythology, School System

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.182, Open Road Media

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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

  Teacher, Listening, Looks

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.221, Open Road Media

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• One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

  Bel Kaufman

  Dream, School, Tree

  Bel Kaufman (1964). “Up the Down Stair Case”

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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.

  Bel Kaufman

  Commitment, Thinking, Touching

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