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

— William Glasser

Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.

— William Glasser

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

— William Glasser

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's terrible because everything we've done is dehumanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

— William Glasser

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.

— William Glasser

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

— 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

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

— William Glasser

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.

— William Glasser

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, do we have no control over it.

— William Glasser