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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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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.

Ted Sizer

Ted Sizer

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)

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