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.

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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.

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.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.