What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education,… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues,… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
“While it is easy to blame a teen for not succeeding, there are serious flaws in the school system that make it… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing. — William Glasser Copy Share
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we… — William Glasser Copy Share
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. — William Glasser Copy Share
A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster. — William Glasser Copy Share
“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past… — William Glasser Copy Share
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. — William Glasser Copy Share
“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.” — William Glasser Copy Share
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking… — William Glasser Copy Share
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… — William Glasser Copy Share
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. — William Glasser Copy Share
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past… — William Glasser Copy Share
Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man… — William Glasser Copy Share
Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more… — William Glasser Copy Share
