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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Education Hsocial Experience Teachers Teaching

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Homo Ludens Learning Playing

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.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Hidden Meaning Humorous Illness Injoke Irony Personal Self Understanding

Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Choice Theory Choices Making Choices

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us, we are it's victim and we have no control over it.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Amusement Content Deep Word Play Deeper Meaning Humor Illiteral Injoke Irony Literal Philosophical Understandment

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.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser In The Past Painful Today

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.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Relationship Quality World

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.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Teach Group Students

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Relationship School

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

William Glasser Education Relationship

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.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Education Good Growth

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.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Conversation Group

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

William Glasser School Quality Book

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Education Quality Process

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Love Freedom Fun

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Focus Thinking Facts

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Education Changes Think

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

~ William Glasser

William Glasser Caring Trying Way
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