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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

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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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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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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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
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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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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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Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
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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 we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
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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.
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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
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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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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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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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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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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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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
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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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