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Everybody needs one essential friend.
William Glasser
Needs
Everybody
Friend
Essential
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
William Glasser
Knowledge
You
School
Without
Lot
Going
Acquire
Ever
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
William Glasser
Knowledge
Focus
Thinking
Facts
Schools
Educational
Which
Acquiring
Much
Requires
Application
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
Long
Year
Nothing
Pay
Our
Hundred
System
Thousand
Schools
Dollars
Improve
Teachers
Keep
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
Work
You
World
Will
Students
Schools
Accept
Real
Passing
Get
Grade
The Real World
Real World
Much
Lowest
Less
Help
Why
Competence
Competent
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.
William Glasser
Education
Good
Word
Hundred
Define
Would
Would-Be
Good Schools
General
Good Teachers
Had
Schools
Very
Little
Room
Them
Asked
Teachers
Agreement
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
William Glasser
Education
Knowledge
Picture
Think
Changes
Both
Improving
Using
Whole
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
William Glasser
Knowledge
Opportunities
Will
Long
Schools
Limited
Educational
Educational Opportunities
Goal
Families
Affluent
Acquiring
Now
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