William Glasser Quotes

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
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William Glasser
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Psychologist
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11 May, 1925
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23 August, 2013
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