You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
—William Glasser
Topics: School
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
—William Glasser
Topics: School
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
—William Glasser
Topics: School
We learn…
10%… of what we read
20%… of what we hear
30%… of what we see
50%… of what we see and hear
70%… of what we discuss with others
80%… of what we experience personally
95%… of what we teach others.
—William Glasser
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
—William Glasser
Topics: Survival, Fun, Freedom
Everybody needs one essential friend.
—William Glasser
Topics: Friends and Friendship
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
Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way, but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.
—William Glasser
Topics: Awareness, Realization, Acceptance
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