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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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" 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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" We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. "

" 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. "

" No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. "

" Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. "

" When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control. "

" To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. "

" Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. "

" 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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" Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. "

" 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. "

" There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing. "

" I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. "

" You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. "

" We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives. "

" As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. "

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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. "