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Everybody needs one essential friend.

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

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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.

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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?

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

~William Glasser

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: Unknown

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