William Glasser

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I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

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

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

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.

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

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