Education Quote by William Glasser

“Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.”

William Glasser

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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we…

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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

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A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.

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“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past…

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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

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“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.”

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This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking…

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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

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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…

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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

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“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

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According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind…

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“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,…

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

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