New Face: Carl Rogers

Changed the "Face" of the Blog today, to one of the founders of "Humanistic" Psychology... Carl Rogers.

I'm not a huge Psychology buff, but I do admire Carl Rogers quite a bit.

As a coach/teacher/and an amateur athlete myself, I have always been interested in motivation, and Rogers seems to explain motivation for learning and to be honest, really anything better than most.

Basically, and I'm paraphrasing and putting in a nutshell Rogers believed that "All learning is self motivated."  His theory was very "learner based" which is interesting as we move forward in our technological world, and the face of education is changing in that direction.

Finally, Some of my favorite Roger's Quotes:

• "The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others."
• "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change"
• "The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."
• "With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can."
• "When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
• "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."