Quotes By William Glasser

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Everybody needs one essential friend.