William Glasser

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.