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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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" 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

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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. "

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

William Glasser

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Victim

" 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. "

" 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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody needs one essential friend. "

" 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. "

" Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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