Ted Sizer Quotes
- Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.
- In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius,…
- The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future.…
- Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for…
- Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.
- A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.
- The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.
- You can't motivate a student you don't know.