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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
— William Glasser
A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
— William Glasser
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
— William Glasser
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
— William Glasser
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
— 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
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
— William Glasser
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.
— William Glasser
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
— William Glasser
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
— William Glasser
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.
— William Glasser
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
— William Glasser
Everybody needs one essential friend.
— William Glasser
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.
— William Glasser
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.
— 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
No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
— William Glasser
The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing.
— William Glasser
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
— William Glasser
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
— William Glasser
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
— William Glasser
Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
— William Glasser
The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
— William Glasser
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
— William Glasser
The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
— William Glasser
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
— William Glasser
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
— William Glasser
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
— William Glasser
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.
— William Glasser
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.
— William Glasser
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
— William Glasser
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
— William Glasser
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
— William Glasser
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
— William Glasser
The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
— William Glasser
When you study great teachers ... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
— 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