Bel Kaufman Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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

• 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.

  Bel Kaufman

  Art, Children, Reading

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.49, Open Road Media

• 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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