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Everybody needs one essential friend.
The ultimate use of power is to empower others.
Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.
Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.
The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.
Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
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.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
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.
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
We learn... 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we both hear and see 70% of what is discussed 80% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach to someone else
To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.