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Quotes from Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School — Ted Sizer

1932–2009 United States

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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.

Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School (1984)

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.

Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School (1984)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ted Sizer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.