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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment. (William Glasser)
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is. View quote
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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. View quote
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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. View quote
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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it. View quote
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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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? View quote
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There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Beware of getting involved with people who seem to be able to feel good but have no close friends. They may be witty and fun to be around, but their humor is all put-downs and hostility. If you marry such a person, you will soon be the recipient of that hostile humor and may regret it for the rest of your marriage.... Someone who does not have good friends does not know how to love. View quote
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If you depend on the widespread lover's delusion, 'With my love he or she will change,' you have little chance to help yourself. This delusion is external control to the maximum. If things are not good from the beginning, they are very likely to change, but not for the better. View quote
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Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you. (William Glasser)
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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