William Glasser Quotes - Page 2

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

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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.

Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.

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

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

Everybody needs one essential friend.

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.

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

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.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

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

A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.

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.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

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?

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

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