Best Quotes by Bel Kaufman (Top 6)

  1. Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
  2. Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.