Sarason Quotes

#1. his secretary-press-agent-private-philosopher, Lee Sarason, yielded nothing to others'.

Sinclair Lewis

#2. It is virtually impossible to create and sustain over time conditions for productive learning for students when they do not exist for teachers.
-Seymour Sarason

Diane Sweeney

#3. Good friends are good for your health

Irwin G. Sarason

#4. You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Ann Rinaldi

#5. Salvation for our educational ills ... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.

Seymour Sarason

#6. Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Michael Polanyi

#7. If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

Seymour Sarason

#8. To the naked eye, he's decent kissing height if I wear platforms, though of course a live test will be required before official certification of Kissing Compatibility can be issued.
It will be issued.
Soon.
Or I might implode.

Laini Taylor

#9. There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

Seymour Sarason

#10. The cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

Anais Nin

#11. It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.

Marcel Duchamp

#12. On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

Mike Johanns