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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
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Ted Sizer
Age: 77 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 23
Died: 2009
Died: October 21
Teacher
New Haven
Connecticut
Theodore Ryland Sizer
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