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?
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
When I'm working on a book, I try to do eight pages a week. That seems like a good amount. Less than that, I'm not getting a nice momentum, and more than that, I'm probably putting out too much crap.
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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