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" 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. "
William Glasser
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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. "
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" 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? "
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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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" To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. "
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Going
" I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Education
Push
Relationship
" 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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Good
Education
" Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. "
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Own
Way
" 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. "
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Quality
Relationship
" 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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" If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. "
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" We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives. "
William Glasser
Choice
Control
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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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Teacher
Students
Group
" No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. "
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Work
Working
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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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Will
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" Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment. "
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Bad
Good
Choice
" Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. "
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" What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. "
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" Everybody needs one essential friend. "
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" Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it. "
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Sex
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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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" 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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Will
" 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. "
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Right
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