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. – William Glasser
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. – William Glasser
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about. – William Glasser
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now its really bad because everything weve done is de-humanizing education. Its destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. – William Glasser