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. William Glasser Read Quote
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? William Glasser Read Quote
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. William Glasser Read Quote
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison. William Glasser Read Quote
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. William Glasser Read Quote
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. William Glasser Read Quote
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. William Glasser Read Quote
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. William Glasser Read Quote
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! William Glasser Read Quote
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. William Glasser Read Quote
