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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

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William Glasser
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 11
Died: 2013
Died: August 23
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Cleveland
Ohio
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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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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.
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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.
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There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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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.
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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.
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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
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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.
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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.
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We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
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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.
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