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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 take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily."
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Ted SizerThings remain the same because it is impossible to change very much wi — Ted Sizer
"Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything."
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Theodore Ryland Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder of the Essential Schools Movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools. Beginning in the late 1970s, he had worked with hundreds of high schools, studying the development and design of the American educational system, leading
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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."
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