William Glasser

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.”

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

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

“We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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