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What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

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

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Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a ...

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What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisi...

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Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we hav...

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This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages the...

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

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

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everyth...

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

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get o...

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

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Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts ...

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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 stud...

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William Glasser

Psychiatrist

Born: 1925-05-11

Died: 2013-08-23

William Glasser M.D. (born May 11, 1925 - August 23 2013) was an American psychiatrist. He is the developer of reality therapy and choice theory.More