Sizer Quotes

#1. I cannot teach a child I do not know

Ted Sizer

#2. You can't switch sides!" I glare at him in fury.
"I was never on your side," retorts Lorcan. "Your side is the nutty side.

Sophie Kinsella

#3. Evil doesn't have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.

Yvon Chouinard

#4. E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.

Randall L. Stephenson

#5. Christian Zionism has become the most powerful and destructive force at work in America today. Influential in shaping Western foreign policy on the Middle East, they are not only inciting hatred between Jews and Muslims but are also the greatest roadblock to lasting peace in the Middle East.

Stephen Sizer

#6. No thefts of free will reported."[ - Epictetus.]

Marcus Aurelius

#7. The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.

Katharine McPhee

#8. We'd all be a heap sight better off if we'd forget the highfalutin notions of our fancy civilization and mind more what the savages knew long before us: to honor our mother.

Anonymous

#9. Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.

Ted Sizer

#10. You can't motivate a student you don't know.

Theodore Sizer

#11. Education jargon is the language of pedants; it identifies those who have so little confidence in themselves and their work that they seek to create a veil of words to hide them.

Ted Sizer

#12. You've got to connect with the things that you love.

Dee Bradley Baker

#13. The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

Dennis Prager

#14. The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land was that they were more interested in money and power and treated the poor and aliens with contempt.

Stephen Sizer

#15. 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

#16. Sweet mother of twat tingles.

K.M. Golland

#17. 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

#18. Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

Ted Sizer

#19. The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

Ted Sizer

#20. The kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.

Ted Sizer

#21. Every student, without exception,
should be able to succeed well
at something consequential.

Ted Sizer

#22. I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, 'No thanks, I'm not going that far.

Steven Wright

#23. 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

#24. 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