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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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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

"What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them."

"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"

"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
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"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no."


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


"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."


"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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