When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
More Quotes from Carl Rogers:
The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, in which my real feelings are evident by an acceptance of this other person as a separate person with value in his own right and by a deep empathic understanding which enables me to see his private world through his eyes.Carl Rogers
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Carl Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
Then we got another letter saying, 'OK, we're back in the business. Then we started going back to Lubbock. But then about a week later, around the end of the year, we were notified that they were sending out contract amendments that in our case was going to change our base price for an autopsy -- we had a contract that was only two months old at the time -- that they were going to raise those contract costs over 100 percent.
Carl Rogers
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 Rogers
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers
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