41 Quotes by Bel Kaufman

You’re not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

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.

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

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.

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

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

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.

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