William Glasser Quotes
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
Quotes to Explore
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
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During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
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I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.
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When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
