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The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

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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Power
Empower
Empowering
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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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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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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.
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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
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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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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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Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
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