Top 22 Ted Sizer Quotes
#1. People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
Desmond Tutu
#2. He saw the threat of the family being destroyed by not being open to life or children. Paul VI was brave. He was a good pastor. He alerted his sheep, telling them that the wolves were approaching.
Pope Francis
#3. I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.
R.J. Palacio
#4. Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.
Buddy Guy
#5. 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
#6. All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Barry Unsworth
#7. 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
#8. There is no particular way in true practice. You should find your own way, and you should know what kind of practice you have right now.
Shunryu Suzuki
#9. Every student, without exception,
should be able to succeed well
at something consequential.
Ted Sizer
#10. The kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.
Ted Sizer
#11. The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.
Ted Sizer
#12. Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.
Ted Sizer
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Evolutionarily speaking, love is all about procreation.
Abhijit Naskar
#16. I cannot teach a child I do not know
Ted Sizer
#17. I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
Norah Jones
#19. 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
#20. Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.
Ted Sizer
#21. All paths are present, always ... and we can but choose among them.
Jacqueline Carey
#22. Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.
Marcel Proust
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