William Glasser
William Glasser
William Glasserwas an American psychiatrist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
CountryUnited States of America
thinking whole-picture improving
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
educational school thinking
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
thinking acquiring-knowledge defined
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
strong educational thinking
Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.
crazy book thinking
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!
teacher heart thinking
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.
learn teach
We Learn . . .10% of what we read20% of what we hear30% of what we see50% of what we see and hear70% of what we discuss80% of what we experience95% of what we teach others.
american-psychologist fulfill later needs perhaps yes
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
deeply involve persuade process quality students work
If we are to persuade all students to do quality work, we must involve them deeply in the process of evaluating their own work as they do it! This is concurrent evaluation.
accept cannot competence high less work
In any place work is done, you cannot accept anything less than competence if you want high quality.
real order discipline
To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
running school helping-others
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
victim over-it passive
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
children lying teaching
The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing.