"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge."

Justice

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This quotation examines the core nature of Justice as articulated by William Glasser. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Justice provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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

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"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun."

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"Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship."

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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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"Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."

— Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference."

— Marc Morial
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"Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business."

— Danica McKellar
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"Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right."

— Carnie Wilson
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