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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
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Cleveland
Ohio
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The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
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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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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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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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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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To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
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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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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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We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
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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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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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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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Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
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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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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
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