William Glasser Quotes

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.

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

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.