Quote

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

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
Wall
May
Bloody
Heads
Stone
Stones
Unless
Choose

More quotes by William Glasser

Image
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
William Glasser
Image
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.
William Glasser
Image
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
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
No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser
Image
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
William Glasser
Image
The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
William Glasser
Image
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
William Glasser
Image
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.
William Glasser
Image
Everybody needs one essential friend.
William Glasser
Image
The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
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
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
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
The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
William Glasser
Image
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?
William Glasser
Image
Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
William Glasser
Image
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
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
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
William Glasser