Critical Quotes by Ted Sizer

Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions…

— Ted Sizer

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.

— Ted Sizer

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

— Ted Sizer

... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.

— Ted Sizer

The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the…

— Ted Sizer

Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.

— Ted Sizer

I cannot teach a child I do not know

— Ted Sizer

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

— Ted Sizer

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of…

— Ted Sizer

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

— Ted Sizer