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I feel no different than I fe...

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

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If a teacher wants to know so...

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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Best marks go to cheaters and...

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

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I am writing this during my l...

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

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Laughter keeps you healthy. Y...

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.

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Learning is a process of mutu...

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

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I so enjoy being old because ...

I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

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One of my students had writte...

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

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I had used my sense of humor;...

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

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I like the word OLD. Not seni...

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

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Never mind the cream; it will...

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

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The preciousness of every mom...

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

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... good teachers, like Tolst...

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

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The clerical work is par for ...

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.

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But if there is such a thing ...

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.

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Love is the ultimate giving, ...

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

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Teachers try to make us feel ...

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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The heart has its reasons; it...

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

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I’ll never retire as long as ...

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.

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Education can't make us all l...

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

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