William Glasser

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. ↗

— William Glasser

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

— William Glasser

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We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to. ↗

— William Glasser

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

— William Glasser

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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control. ↗

— William Glasser

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When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label. ↗

— William Glasser

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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. ↗

— William Glasser

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To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. ↗

— William Glasser

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

— William Glasser

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