Seymour Sarason famous quotes

Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.
-- Seymour Sarason

#Educational #School #Community

Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than we are of how we need to change. Salvation for our educational ills is only secondarily "out there." Primarily it will have to come from within an educational community willing to say that we have met the enemy and it is us.
-- Seymour Sarason

#Educational #Discovery #Self

There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?
-- Seymour Sarason

#Teacher #School #Students

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.
-- Seymour Sarason

#School #Culture #Reform

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.