Theodore Sizer Quotes

#1. When shall the saner softer polities Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?

Thomas Hardy

#2. Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.

Eric Schlosser

#3. The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.

Lee L Jampolsky

#4. Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

Samuel Johnson

#5. His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word.

Douglas Adams

#6. She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband.

James Joyce

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

Theodore Sizer

#8. The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.

Milton Friedman

#9. The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. And I would sit there, smiling stupidly and realizing they had no idea how rare and lucky they were, and realizing further that this ignorance of their great good fortune could well be the whole trick of achieving it in the first place.

Ron Currie Jr.

#11. I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

David Antin