top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Being quotes
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
Explore more quotes by William Glasser
"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education."
"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."
"Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."
"We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to."
bottom of page