William Glasser Quotes
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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.
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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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The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
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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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Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
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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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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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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
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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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Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
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There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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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.
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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
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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.
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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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Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
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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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The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
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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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The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
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We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
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The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
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