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William Glasser
American
Psychologist
Born:
May 11
,
1925
Died:
Aug 23
,
2013
Education
Good
School
Teacher
Will
You
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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.
William Glasser
Today
Great
Great Deal
Past
Nothing
Deal
Revisiting
Contribute
Happened
In The Past
Little
Painful
Now
Need
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser
Love
Needs
Freedom
Survival
Power
Driven
Genetic
Five
Fun
Belonging
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.
William Glasser
Me
World
Else
Everyone
Would
Would-Be
Could
Make
Learn
Does
Anyone
Anyone Else
Happier
Place
Much
Right
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
William Glasser
Impossible
Misery
Almost
Most
Ineffective
Becoming
Continue
Anyone
After
Us
Choice
Choose
Even
Aware
Among
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.
William Glasser
Relationship
Quality
Acceptance
World
Humor
Will
Build
Control
Relate
Out
No Control
Seek
Counselor
Puts
Make
Client
Effective
Dent
Begins
Where
Then
Therapist
Therapy
Using
Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
William Glasser
Best
Good
Our
Everything
Bad
Choice
Moment
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
William Glasser
Crazy
You
Book
People
Big
Crazy People
Think
About
Written
Supposedly
Know
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
William Glasser
Education
You
Will
Students
Schooling
Test
Test Scores
Scores
Improve
Teaching
Connecting
Competence
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
William Glasser
Life
Needs
Too
Our
Later
Say
Rather
Fail
Perhaps
Because
Yes
Than
Us
Fulfill
Should
Many
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
William Glasser
Better
Will
Control
Our
Our Lives
More
Almost
Always
Choice
Choices
Lives
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
William Glasser
Teacher
Relationship
Conversation
School
Students
Intellectual
Lack
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.
William Glasser
Good
Democracy
School
Help Others
Preparation
Others
Running
Some
Students
Make
Grade
Where
Succeed
Help
Even
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
William Glasser
Control
Victim
No Control
Neurotic
Over
Over It
Passive
Happened
Depressed
Us
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.
William Glasser
Education
Teacher
Good
Heart
Understanding
Think
Constantly
Students
Checking
Encouraging
Where
Them
Ask
Good Education
Growth
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
William Glasser
Will
Trouble
Settled
Bad
More
Could
Him
Dealing
Label
Than
Anyone
Lesser
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
William Glasser
Work
Human Being
Will
Pay
Respected
Ability
He
He Or She
She
Without
Up
Human
Being
Cared
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.
William Glasser
Education
Teacher
Relationship
Made
Single
Every
Everything
Worse
Destroying
Possibility
Bad
Having
Student
Push
Major
Because
Intellectual
Friendly
Done
Warm
Really
Now
Right
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
William Glasser
Education
Challenge
Responsibility
Must
Counter
Reduce
Intellectual
Domination
Avoidance
Certainty
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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