The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
Carl RogersRead
A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning
Interpretation
Teaching is not about direct transfer of knowledge, but about enabling individuals to learn on their own.
This quote emphasizes the role of the teacher as a facilitator who creates an environment conducive to learning. It suggests that true education occurs within the learner and that teachers should guide and support rather than dictate knowledge, allowing students to explore and discover for themselves.
In practice
In a teacher training session to emphasize the importance of student-centered learning.
The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.
The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.
I prize the privilege of being alone.
Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.
I have come to think that one of the most satisfying experiences I know β and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person β is just fully to appreciate this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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