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
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one
money order education process job ending
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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When I had asked why they were taking English, a boy said: To help us in real life.
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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
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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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A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.
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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 had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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