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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if
education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
- William Glasser
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
- William Glasser
Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those
who shouldn't be having it.
- William Glasser
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
- William Glasser
No human being will work hard at anything unless they
believe that they are working for competence.
- William Glasser
I think education is both using and improving knowledge
and that changes the whole picture.
- William Glasser
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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.
- 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
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
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge
which requires thinking and application,
as we do on acquiring facts.
- 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
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
Education is the process in which we discover that
learning adds quality to our lives.
Learning must be experienced.
- William Glasser
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
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
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
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice,
the more we will be in control of our lives.
- William Glasser
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility,
we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
- William Glasser
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality
School in that there is winning but no losing.
- William Glasser
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship
or conversation with the teacher.
- William Glasser
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further
way to define friendship.
- William Glasser
Everybody needs one essential friend.
- William Glasser
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
- William Glasser
Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if
there was no sex between you.
- 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.
- William Glasser
Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
- William Glasser
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.
- William Glasser
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability
if he or she is not cared for and respected.
- William Glasser
If you improve education by teaching for competence,
eliminating schooling, and connecting with students,
the test scores will improve.
- 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.
- William Glasser
We are driven by five genetic needs:
survival,
love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
- 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
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.
- 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.
- 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?
- William Glasser
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
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.
- William Glasser
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.
- William Glasser
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.
- William Glasser
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise L. Hay
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
- Terry Goodkind
The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Reality is what you believe it to be.
It's what you put your thought and energy into,
because your hands physically manifest thought.
So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.
- Jewel
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