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The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

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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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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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
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The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
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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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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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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
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They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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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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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.
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Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.
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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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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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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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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.
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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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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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