William Glasser Quotes
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The more a person perceives that he is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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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.
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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
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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?
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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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 education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
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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.
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A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
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We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
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The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
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When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
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To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
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We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
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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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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.
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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
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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 that is written by crazy people!