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> [Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/things-remain-the-same-because-it-is-impossible-to-change-very-much/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-sizer/)

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## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/inspiration-hunger-these-are-the-qualities-that-drive-good-schools/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/a-good-education-teaches-you-how-to-ask-a-question-it-s-knowing-what/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-sizer/)

> [Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/things-remain-the-same-because-it-is-impossible-to-change-very-much/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-sizer/)

> [... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/the-kids-do-what-no-one-expects-them-to-do-that-s-progress/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/the-first-object-of-any-act-of-learning-over-and-beyond-the-pleasure/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-sizer/)

> [Every student, without exception, should be able to succeed well at something consequential.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/every-student-without-exception-should-be-able-to-succeed-well-at/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-sizer/)

> [I cannot teach a child I do not know](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/i-cannot-teach-a-child-i-do-not-know/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-sizer/)

> [Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/writing-is-the-litmus-paper-of-thoughtthe-very-center-of-schooling/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/in-the-history-of-education-the-most-striking-phenomenon-is-that/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-sizer/)

> [The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-sizer/the-schools-schedule-is-a-series-of-units-of-time-the-clock-is-king/)

[Ted Sizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-sizer/)

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