Quotes by William Glasser

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

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.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

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.