If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

- Seymour Sarason

Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than …

- Seymour Sarason

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?

- Seymour Sarason

Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.

- Seymour Sarason