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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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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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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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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
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We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
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Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.
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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
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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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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
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A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
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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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The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
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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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