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" Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it. "
William Glasser
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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 don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. "
William Glasser
Focus
Knowledge
Much
" 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? "
William Glasser
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Accept
" 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. "
William Glasser
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Relationship
" 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. "
William Glasser
Fast
You
True
" I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. "
William Glasser
Think
Knowledge
Education
" There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. "
William Glasser
Prison
Done
Job
" 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
Dealing
Will
Trouble
" Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. "
William Glasser
May
Job
Hardest
" I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. "
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Education
Think
Picture
" Everybody needs one essential friend. "
William Glasser
Needs
Everybody
Essential
" 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. "
William Glasser
Interesting
Talk
Conversation
" 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. "
William Glasser
Teachers
Good
Education
" Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you. "
William Glasser
You
Marry
Would
" Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected. "
William Glasser
Will
Human
Human Being
" 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. "
William Glasser
Teacher
Quality
Help
" If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. "
William Glasser
Change
Start
Want
" 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
Teacher
Students
Group
" Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. "
William Glasser
Learning
Quality
Process
" When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control. "
William Glasser
Feeling
Victims
Over
" 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
May
Stone
Up
" 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
Tradition
War
Will
" 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. "
William Glasser
Past
Nothing
Now
" 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. "
William Glasser
Teacher
Education
Good
" 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
Long
Knowledge
Goal
" We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. "
William Glasser
Freedom
Power
Love
" To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. "
William Glasser
Control
Victim
Us
" 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
World
Right
Place
" We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives. "
William Glasser
Choice
Control
Choices
" 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! "
William Glasser
You
Crazy
Know