We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

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

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

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to...

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to...

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if...

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if...

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of...

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of...

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working...

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working...

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job...

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job...

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much...

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much...

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

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

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and...

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and...

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help...

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help...

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it...

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it...

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really...

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really...

Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God...

Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God...

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning...

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning...

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test....

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test....

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

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

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our...

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our...

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with...

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with...