Carl Rogers Quotes

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.

One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

I wanted to be a teacher.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.