William Glasser Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• 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.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Retirement, Talking

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

  William Glasser

  Teacher, School, Talking

• 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.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Heart, Thinking

• 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

  Matter, Students, Faster

• 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

  Teacher, Intellectual, Friendly

• 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.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

• 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?

  William Glasser

  Real, School, World

• 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.

  William Glasser

  Running, School, Helping Others

• 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.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Interesting Conversation, Perspective

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

  William Glasser

  Teaching, Test Scores, Tests

• To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

  William Glasser

  Real, Order, Discipline

  William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Choice Theory in the Classroom”, p.13, Harper Collins

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