Top 58 William Glasser Quotes
#1. William Glasser: "We learn 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we see and hear, 70 percent of what we discuss, 80 percent of what we experience, and 95 percent of what we teach others.
Bill Capodagli
#2. What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.
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#3. 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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#4. Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
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#5. 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.
William Glasser
#6. Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
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#7. 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.
William Glasser
#8. If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
William Glasser
#9. There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
William Glasser
#10. 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!
William Glasser
#11. Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
William Glasser
#12. 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.
William Glasser
#13. Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
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#14. We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
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#15. 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.
William Glasser
#16. It is no kindness to treat unhappy people as helpless, hopeless, or inadequate, no matter what has happened to them. Kindness is having faith in the truth and that people can handle it and use it for their benefit. True compassion is helping people help themselves.
William Glasser
#17. 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.
William Glasser
#18. No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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#20. 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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#21. To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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#22. To become more effective, you must learn what these people have learned: how you feel is not controlled by others or events. You are not the physical or psychological slave of your parents, husband, wife, child, boss, the economy, or anything else unless you choose to be.
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#23. Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
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#24. We learn ...
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else
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#25. I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
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#26. The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
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#27. A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
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#28. What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
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#29. 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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#31. The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing.
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#33. We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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#34. 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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#35. The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
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#36. When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
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#37. This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
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#38. 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.
William Glasser
#39. To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.
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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
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#54. 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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#55. When you study great teachers ... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
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#56. 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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#57. I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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#58. 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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