We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
Quote by William Glasser
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We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
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William Glasser Quotes
- To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
- Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
- What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
- 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.
- 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.
- Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
- If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
- If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
- You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
Best Quotes
- The world's a better place since I chose music.
- He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
- We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
- I love being home at Christmastime.
- Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
- A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
- I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.
- I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.
- I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.