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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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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 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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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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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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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
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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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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
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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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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.
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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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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
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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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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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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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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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Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
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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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The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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