To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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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…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by William GlasserEducation is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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…
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.