William Glasser Quotes

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.

Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.

I support high academic standards. Period.

What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'

The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I was in honors classes in high school. I'd get an A on every test, but I had a 1.9 grade point average. The teacher would say, 'You didn't do your homework.' I'd say, 'But isn't the homework supposed to be the lead-up to the test?'

In an increasingly complex world, with courseloads becoming heavier and heavier, shouldn't we be opting for more accountability when it comes to our professors, not less?

Lower standards tell students that they don't need to work hard and leave more high school students unprepared for college and the workplace.

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.

Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

It is time to end social promotion in America’ s schools.

Parents have a right to know whether their children are mastering the basics.

There is no less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there.

Louisiana standards and Louisiana tests for Louisiana students.

The crowds, the praise, and the power are neither just nor unjust in themselves. As they are typically used in the schools, they represent the values of social order and of individual competitive achievement.