William Glasser Quotes
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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!
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The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
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It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
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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 their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
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Everybody needs one essential friend.
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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 for understanding and growth.
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We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
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The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
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We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else
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There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.
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What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.
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Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
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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 can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
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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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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 an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
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If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
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Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
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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 and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.
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Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.