3 December 2020 William Glasser 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.
3 December 2020 William Glasser To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
3 December 2020 William Glasser I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
3 December 2020 William Glasser As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
3 December 2020 William Glasser Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
3 December 2020 William Glasser We don’t focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
3 December 2020 William Glasser What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
3 December 2020 William Glasser If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
3 December 2020 William Glasser Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
3 December 2020 William Glasser I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
3 December 2020 William Glasser 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.
3 December 2020 William Glasser 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.
3 December 2020 William Glasser 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.
3 December 2020 William Glasser We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
3 December 2020 William Glasser 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.
3 December 2020 William Glasser 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.
