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

- Ted Sizer

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

- Ted Sizer

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

- Ted Sizer

I cannot teach a child I do not know

- Ted Sizer

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

- Ted Sizer

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

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…

- Ted Sizer

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

- Ted Sizer

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

- Ted Sizer