Author: William Glasser

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers good teachers from good schools and asked them to define the word education there would be very little general agreement.

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

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

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.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm friendly intellectual relationship.