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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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" You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. "
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" Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence. "
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Work
Working
Human
" 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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" Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. "
William Glasser
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Own
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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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Talk
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" Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. "
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Quality
Process
" 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
" 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
Human
Human Being
" 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
Education
Push
Relationship
" Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. "
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May
Job
Hardest
" 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
" We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. "
William Glasser
Freedom
Power
Love
" 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
" To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. "
William Glasser
Challenge
Responsibility
Education
" 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
" Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it. "
William Glasser
People
Sex
Who
" 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
" 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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Students
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" Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment. "
William Glasser
Bad
Good
Choice
" What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. "
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" 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. "
William Glasser
Humor
Quality
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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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Long
Knowledge
Goal
" 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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