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"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
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"Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day."
"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."
"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."
"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
"I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."
"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."
"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
"Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out."
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"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
"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."
"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence."
"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."
"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."
"Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected."
"When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label."
"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."
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