Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

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

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

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

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

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I cannot teach a child I do not know

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A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It’s knowing what you don’t know; the skills of critical thought.

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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…

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

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... the kids do what no one expects them to do. That's progress.

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