If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. William Glasser on change
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 on education
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 on education
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. William Glasser on education
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. William Glasser on education
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. William Glasser on education
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. William Glasser on education
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. William Glasser on education
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. William Glasser on education
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. William Glasser on freedom
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. William Glasser on friendship
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 on great
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 on humor
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. William Glasser on knowledge
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. William Glasser on knowledge
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. William Glasser on knowledge
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. William Glasser on knowledge
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. William Glasser on knowledge
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. William Glasser on learning
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. William Glasser on peace