glasser Quotes

“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”

“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.”

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

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

“To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.”

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

“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.”

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

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