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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.

William Glasser

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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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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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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
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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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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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They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
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Everybody needs one essential friend.
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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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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
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In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
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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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There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
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The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
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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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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
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The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
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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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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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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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