Ted Sizer Born : June 23, 1932 Died : October 21, 2009 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by 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 future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily. Ted Sizer future moving-forward education 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 them to flourish, and then get out of their way. Ted Sizer educational inspiration school You can't motivate a student you don't know. Ted Sizer students knows 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 good-education skills knowing Every student, without exception, Ted Sizer succeed able students Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything. Ted Sizer change impossible inspirational I cannot teach a child I do not know Ted Sizer teach knows children The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king. Ted Sizer educational kings school Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling. Ted Sizer schooling paper writing 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, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. Ted Sizer routine generations school ... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress. Ted Sizer progress kids
