Seymour Sarason Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Now I know my capacity for awe
is infinite: this thirst is permanent,
the well bottomless, my good fortune vast.

Elizabeth Alexander

#3. 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

#4. The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia.

Steven Cojocaru

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

Seymour Sarason

#6. Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.

Pia Zadora

#7. Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

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

Seymour Sarason

#9. Powerful, emotionally charged and worthy of every accolade the film industry has to offer. OCTOBER BABY will change you ... just open your heart.

Judie Brown