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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
Education
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Lives
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Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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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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The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
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In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
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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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The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
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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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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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There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
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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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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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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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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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The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
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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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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 don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
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