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.
William Glasser

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

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

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
William Glasser

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

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

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

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.
William Glasser

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

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

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.
William Glasser

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

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

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

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

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

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
William Glasser

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