William Glasser Quotes

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William Glasser

Profession : Psychologist

Birth : May 11, 1925

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

William Glasser

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

William Glasser

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.

William Glasser

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

William Glasser

Everybody needs one essential friend.

William Glasser

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

William Glasser

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

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

William Glasser

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?

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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.

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

William Glasser

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

William Glasser

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

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

William Glasser

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

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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

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

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

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

William Glasser

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

William Glasser