I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
– Carl R. Rogers
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
– Carl R. Rogers
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
– Carl R. Rogers
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
– Carl R. Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
– Carl R. Rogers
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
– Carl R. Rogers
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.