Best William Glasser Quotes
- 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… Behind
- 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… All
- Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment. Bad
- To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. Control
- What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. Conversation
- Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. Add
- We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to. Bloody
- Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. All
- Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world… Acceptance
- When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control. Believe
- In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open… Another Student
- 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… Accept
- 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… Break
- I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. Acquiring
- To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. Avoidance
- We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. Acquiring
- When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label. Anyone
- As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. Acquiring
- Everybody needs one essential friend. Best Friend
- I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. Both
- If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. Competence
- Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected. Ability
- Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half… Able
- 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… Big
- When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. Caring