101 Quotes by William Glasser

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

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.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

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.

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.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

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?