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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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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
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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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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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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
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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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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
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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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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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