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We learn...
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else
William Glasser
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.
William Glasser
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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
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We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser
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The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
William Glasser
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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
William Glasser
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Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
William Glasser
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It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
William Glasser
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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
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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
William Glasser
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Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
William Glasser
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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
William Glasser
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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
William Glasser
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If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
William Glasser
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What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.
William Glasser
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The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
William Glasser
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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.
William Glasser
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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
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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The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
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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Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
William Glasser
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Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.
William Glasser
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
William Glasser
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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
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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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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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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
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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.
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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
William Glasser
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There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser
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The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
William Glasser
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To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
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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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
William Glasser
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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
William Glasser
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Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
William Glasser
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They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
William Glasser
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The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
William Glasser
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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
William Glasser
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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
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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
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
William Glasser
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Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
William Glasser
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There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
William Glasser
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There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.
William Glasser
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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.
William Glasser
