101 Quotes by William Glasser

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

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

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

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.

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

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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

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.