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. William Glasser More Quotes by William Glasser More 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. William Glasser faster students matter You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. William Glasser acquire school The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing. William Glasser teaching lying children There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up. William Glasser suicide motivational inspirational I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. William Glasser acquiring-knowledge defined thinking 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 book thinking If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. William Glasser test-scores tests teaching The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. William Glasser communication teacher book There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing. William Glasser competition winning school 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 agreement teacher school 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 teacher years school 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 teacher wants to talk about. William Glasser interesting-conversation perspective teacher 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 intellectual friendly teacher 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 real world school 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 educational opportunity school 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 fail us say life
