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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
Education
Improve
Students
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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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" 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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" No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. "
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" We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. "
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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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