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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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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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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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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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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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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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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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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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
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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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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
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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!