American - Psychologist | May 11, 1925 - August 23, 2013
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
William Glasser
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We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
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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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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.
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Everybody needs one essential friend.
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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
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When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
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We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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