William Glasser
34 quotes
Biography
William Glasser was an American psychiatrist. He was the developer of W.
"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."
"Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship."
"When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style."
"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
"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."
"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."
"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."
"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education."
"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
"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."
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."
"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."
"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."
"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."
"I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture."
"As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families."
"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."
"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."
"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."
"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."
"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
"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."