William Glasser Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

  William Glasser

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

• 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

• Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

• 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

• 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.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, School, Years

• The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Book, Communication

• 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

• 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 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.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, School, Agreement

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