Quote of the day
Don't pity me now,
Don't pity me never;
I'm going to do nothing
For ever and ever.
Ted Sizer

Born: June 23, 1932
Died: October 21, 2009 (aged 77)
Bio: Theodore Ryland Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder of the Essential school movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools.
Known for:
- Horace's Compromise
- Horace's school
- Horace's hope
- The Red Pencil
- Secondary schools at the turn of the century (1964)