William Glasser Quotes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.