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William Glasser

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About William Glasser

William Glasser was an American psychiatrist. He was the developer of W. Edwards Deming's workplace ideas, reality therapy and choice theory. His innovations for individual counseling, work environments and school, highlight personal choice, personal responsibility and personal transformation. Glasser positioned himself in opposition to conventional mainstream psychiatrists, who focus instead on classifying psychiatric syndromes as "illnesses" and prescribe psychotropic medications to treat men…

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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.

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 c…

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

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 o…

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.

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 s…

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.

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

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. Effectiv…

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

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.

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

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

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

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

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

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

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.

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

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

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

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.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.