Quotes By William Glasser

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

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

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?

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

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

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.