William Glasser Quotes

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William Glasser

Profession : Psychologist

Birth : May 11, 1925

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

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

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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.

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We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

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

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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

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