“I suggested that [a teacher in one of my workshops] translate her statement ‘I have to give grades because it’s district policy’ to ‘I choose to give grades because I want…’ She answered without hesitation, “I choose to give grades because I want to keep my job,” while hastening to add, “But I don’t like saying it that way. It makes me feel so responsible for what I’m doing.”
“‘That’s why I want you to do it that way,’ I replied.”
-Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication (p. 21)