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
- As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
- 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.
- Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
- What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
- I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.
Best Quotes
- Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
- To secure peace is to prepare for war.
- Rather be dead than cool.
- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
- Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
- Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
- Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
- I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.