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.

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

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

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

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 we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.