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I cannot teach a child I do not know

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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
Cannot
Children
Teach
Child

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