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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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" Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. "

William Glasser

Democracy

Help Others

School

" Everybody needs one essential friend. "

" Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected. "

" 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

Students

Help

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

William Glasser

Choose

Impossible

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

" 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. "

" Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it. "

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

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

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

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

" If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. "

" We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. "

" Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment. "

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

" 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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label. "

" 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. "

" I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. "

" If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. "