"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.“


-William Glasser

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If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

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