William Glasser Quotes on Education (19 Quotes)

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

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.

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.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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

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

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

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

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

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.

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

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

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.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

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.

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

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.