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" Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you. "
William Glasser
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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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" Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. "
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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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" 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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" As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. "
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" I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. "
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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 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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" 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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" Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. "
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" If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it. "
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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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" We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to. "
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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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