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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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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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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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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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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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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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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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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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Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
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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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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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Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
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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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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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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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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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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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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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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
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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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