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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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William Glasser
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 11
Died: 2013
Died: August 23
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Cleveland
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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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The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
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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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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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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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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
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We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else
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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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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
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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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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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It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
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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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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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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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Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
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