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

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.

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

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

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.

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

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