Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Seymour Sarason

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Seymour Sarason

Seymour Bernard Sarason was Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught from 1945 to 1989. He is the author of over forty books and over sixty articles, and he is considered to be one of the most significant American researchers in education, educational psychology, and community psychology. One primary focus of his work was on education reform in the United States. In the 1950s he and George Mandler initiated the research on test anxiety. He founded the Yale Psycho-Educational Clinic in 1961 and was one of the principal leaders in the community psychology movement. In 1974, he proposed psychological sense of community, a central concept in community psychology. Since then, sense of community has become a well-known and commonly used term both in academic and non-academic settings.

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change. — © Seymour Sarason
If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.
There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?
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.
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.
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