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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
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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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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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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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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 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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