The system isn’t stupid, but the people in it are.

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

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation...

The hypothesis that things have affordances, and that we perceive or learn to perceive them, is very promising, radical, but not yet elaborated.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you’re like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting...

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

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

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.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them – you...

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

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.

When we label anyone ‘bad’, we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

Our intention creates our reality.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

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...

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

One of the problems with sex education… is that it also strips kids – especially girls – of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

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

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you...

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.