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Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.
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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