List of William Glasser Quotes

There Is Plenty Of Competition In A Glasser Quality School In That There Is Winning But No Losing.

You Can Acquire A Lot Of Knowledge Without Ever Going To School.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Conversation About Any Subject The Prospective Teacher Wants To Talk About.

If You Improve Education By Teaching For Competence, Eliminating Schooling, And Connecting With Students, The Test Scores Will Improve.

As Long As Acquiring Knowledge Is The Educational Goal Of Schools, Educational Opportunities Will Be Limited, As They Are Now, To Affluent Families.

A Friend Of Mine, A Dedicated Golfer, Shot A Hole In One Playing By Himself. Disaster.

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?

The Answer Lies In Preventing These Failures, Not In Looking For Better Ways To Fix The People Who Are Failing.