We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
From William Glasser
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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.
Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
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