Quote

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

William Glasser

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Glasser
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 11
Died: 2013
Died: August 23
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Cleveland
Ohio
Choices
Moment
Moments
Best
Everything
Good
Choice

More quotes by William Glasser

Image
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.
William Glasser
Image
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
William Glasser
Image
The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
William Glasser
Image
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
William Glasser
Image
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser
Image
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.
William Glasser
Image
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.
William Glasser
Image
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
William Glasser
Image
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!
William Glasser
Image
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
William Glasser
Image
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
William Glasser
Image
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
William Glasser
Image
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
William Glasser
Image
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser
Image
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
William Glasser
Image
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
William Glasser
Image
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
William Glasser
Image
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
William Glasser
Image
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
Image
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.
William Glasser