William Glasser Quotes

We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

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.

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.

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

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

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.

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

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

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.

What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.

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

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

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

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

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

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

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

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

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.