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Sizer focused more on the the habits of mind and how teachers should teach them to students in school. He opposed "one-size-fits-all educational methods". Sizers form of education is structured around less testing and grading but more on the amount of knowledge a student is prepared with. His teaching was more of going deeper than the basic knowledge of things.

Hirsch ideas of education were if you don't know stuff then you can't understand it. You understand what you are taught more from books which is focused less on using the habits of mind. He argued that " an important factor in determining comprehension, an even more important consideration was background knowledge." So having basic knowledge on things is most important to understanding stuff in our culture. He focuses less on students different learning abilities but more on a one-size-fits-all education.

SOF definitely follows Sizers ideas on what schools should be like. The school is focused on the habits of mind and using them in our educational experience. Which is why SOf doesn't do much standardized testing,etc which is different from other high schools. I am more used to Sizers educational methods than Hirsch.