William Glasser Quotes

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

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

The fundamental purpose of schools is to grow adults.

When you're educated, it allows you to be more worldly. It's more than just what happens in a classroom.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

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

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

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

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

The value of a good education has never left me.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Always educate yourself.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.