William Glasser Quotes - Page 2

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

  William Glasser

  Funny, Jobs, Learning

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

  William Glasser

  Victim, Passive, Over It

  "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom". Book by William Glasser (p. 75), 1997.

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• Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• 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

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• Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

  William Glasser

  Strong, Pain, Giving Up

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

  William Glasser

  Believe, Hard Work, Competence

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• Everybody needs one essential friend.

  William Glasser

  Friendship, Best Friend, Essentials

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

  William Glasser

  Sex, People, Mind

  William Glasser (1995). “Staying together: the control theory guide to a lasting marriage”, Harpercollins

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• 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

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

  William Glasser

  Pay, Ability, Humans

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• 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.

  William Glasser

  Acceptance, Quality, World

  Myrtle Beach Conference on Reality Therapy, March 28, 2008.

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

  William Glasser

  Thinking, Acquiring Knowledge, Defined

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

  William Glasser

  Thinking, Improving, Whole

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

  William Glasser

  Educational, School, Thinking

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

  William Glasser

  Labels, Trouble, Ifs

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

  William Glasser

  Responsibility, Challenges, Intellectual

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• A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.

  William Glasser

  Disaster, Holes, Golfers

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• 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

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

  William Glasser

  School, Acquire

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• 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!

  William Glasser

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

  Myrtle Beach Conference on Reality Therapy, March 28, 2008.

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• The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

  William Glasser

  Children, Lying, Teaching

  "Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom".

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

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Book, Communication

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• 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

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

  William Glasser

  Educational, School, Opportunity

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• 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

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