William Glasser Quotes & Sayings

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

“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”

“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.”

“Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.”

“Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.”

“If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.”

“Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.”

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

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

“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.”