What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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 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.
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.
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.
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
