To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be…

William Glasser
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To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying. ✨ William Glasser, M.D. (2010). Choice Theory in the Classroom, p.13, Harper Collins
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To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying. ✨ William Glasser, M.D. (2010). Choice Theory in the Classroom, p.13, Harper Collins

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