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

William Glasser

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

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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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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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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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Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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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.
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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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The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
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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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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
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We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else
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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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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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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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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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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
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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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