Quotes by William Glasser

About William Glasser:

William Glasser was an American psychiatrist.
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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

William Glasser

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teach...

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In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

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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

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

William Glasser

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

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Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.

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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.

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When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

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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.

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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

William Glasser

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!

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

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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.

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We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

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There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

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When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.

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Author Bio

  • NameWilliam Glasser
  • DescriptionAmerican psychiatrist
  • BornMay 11, 1925
  • DiedAugust 23, 2013
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPsychiatrist