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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

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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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
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We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
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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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If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
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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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