Quotes By William Glasser

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.