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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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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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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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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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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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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
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