William Glasser

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.

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.

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

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

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!