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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

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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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Teach
Competent
Talking
Retirement
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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.
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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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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.
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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.
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A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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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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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.
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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
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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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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.
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The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
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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.
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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.
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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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The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
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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!
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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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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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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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