Quotes from William Glasser

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.

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

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.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

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.

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

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

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.