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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

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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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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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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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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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.
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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 are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
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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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Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
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