Quotes By William Glasser

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.

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.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

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

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

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

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.

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.

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

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

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.