William Glasser Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it.”

“When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.”

“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?”

“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.”

“When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.”

“We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.”

“To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.”

“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.”

“Everybody needs one essential friend.”

“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!”