Ted Sizer Quotes

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

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

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

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

I cannot teach a child I do not know

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

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

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