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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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We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser
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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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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!
William Glasser -
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.
William Glasser -
Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
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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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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
William Glasser
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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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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
William Glasser -
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.
William Glasser -
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
William Glasser
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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
William Glasser -
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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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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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.
William Glasser -
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.
William Glasser
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The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
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The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
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 -
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
William Glasser