"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."

Justice

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Insight & Reflection

When William Glasser speaks about justice, it invites us to pause and reflect on our own journey. How often do we consider the subtle impacts of justice in our daily lives? This thought-provoking perspective challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of ourselves.

About William Glasser

William Glasser was an American psychiatrist. He was the developer of W. Edwards Deming's workplace ideas, reality therapy and choice theory. His innovations for individual counseling, work environments and school, highlight personal choice, personal responsibility and personal transformation. Glasser positioned himself in opposition to conventional mainstream psychiatrists, who focus instead on classifying psychiatric syndromes as "illnesses" and prescribe psychotropic medications to treat mental disorders.

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"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education."

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"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."

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

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

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"True knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

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"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

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