- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody needs one essential friend.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
- Nov 07, 2020
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
- Educational Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020