William Glasser Quotes
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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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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
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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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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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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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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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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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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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The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
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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 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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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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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
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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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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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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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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
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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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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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If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
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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.