William Glasser Quotes

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

Great, Today, Past

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
William Glasser

Friendship, May, Trying

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
William Glasser

Change, Start, Behavior

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

Teacher, Friendly, Group

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser

Time, School, Job

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

Place, Else, Learn

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser

Freedom, Love, Power

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
William Glasser

Control, Choice, Lives

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

Education, Teacher, Bad

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

After, Impossible, Choice

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

True, Learned, Matter

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
William Glasser

Sex, Someone, Friends

Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
William Glasser

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

May, Against, Choose

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

Education, Good, Teacher

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

Control, Depressed, Happened

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

Humor, Acceptance, Control

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
William Glasser

Good, Best, Bad

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser

Work, Human, Hard

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

Knowledge, School, Acquire

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

Work, Help, Real

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

Education, Learning, Lives

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
William Glasser

Job, May, Teaching

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

Education, Knowledge, Wrong

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

Good, School, Help

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: 1925

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