To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation… — Bel Kaufman Bidding Copy Share Image
I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie… — Bel Kaufman Bells Copy Share Image
“The building itself is hostile: cracked plaster, broken windows, splintered doors and carved up desks, gloomy corridors, metal stairways, dingy cafeteria (they… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
“There is a premium on conformity, and on silence. Enthusiasm is frowned upon, since it is likely to be noisy. The Admiral… — Bel Kaufman Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
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… — Bel Kaufman Children Copy Share Image
I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all… — Bel Kaufman Attention Copy Share Image
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self. — Bel Kaufman Best self Copy Share Image
“Trouble is,” Paul smiled his most charming smile, “a teacher has to be so many things at the same time: actor, policeman,… — Bel Kaufman Books Copy Share Image
“I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went… — Bel Kaufman First time Copy Share Image
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… — Bel Kaufman Exciting Copy Share Image
Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers. — Bel Kaufman Cream Copy Share Image
“She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school… — Bel Kaufman High school Copy Share Image
“TO: ALL TEACHERS FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST. PLEASE PLOT AND HAND IN THE MEDIAN PERCENTILE CURVE BASED ON THE MIDTERM… — Bel Kaufman Failure Copy Share Image
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the… — Bel Kaufman Academic Copy Share Image
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour. — Bel Kaufman Bread Copy Share Image
“I'm buried beneath an avalanche of papers, I don't understand the language of the country, and what do I do about a… — Bel Kaufman Books Copy Share Image
The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today? — Bel Kaufman Clock Copy Share Image
“I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching.… — Bel Kaufman Education Copy Share Image
“Dear Bea— I've been wading through a pile of "Due before 3" mimeos—but now at last I know what to do with… — Bel Kaufman Education reform Copy Share Image
“Extraordinary—that Willowdale Academy and Calvin Coolidge High School should both be institutions of learning! The contrast is stunning. I had a leisurely… — Bel Kaufman Education Copy Share Image
“Tm not a teach. I'm a teacher. And I have a name. How would you like it if I called you "Hey,… — Bel Kaufman Education Copy Share Image
“There is a need for closeness, yet we can’t get too close. The teacher-pupil relationship is a kind of tightrope to be… — Bel Kaufman Respect Copy Share Image
If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We… — Bel Kaufman Benefits Copy Share Image
