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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.

William Glasser

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William Glasser
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 11
Died: 2013
Died: August 23
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Cleveland
Ohio
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