“It is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse toward growth, or toward the actualization of human potentialities” (Abraham Maslow, 1967)
Maslow, A.H. Neurosis as a failure of personal growth. Humanities, Journal of the Institute of Man, 1967, 8, 154-169
"Facilitation of change and learning [is] the aim of education." (Humanists Carol Rogers and H. Jerome Freiberg, 1993)
Rogers, C. and Freiberg, H. J. (1993) Freedom to Learn (3rd edn.), New York: Merrill.
Union of Teaching, Learning, and Doing: According to Tao Xingzhi, “Things must be done, individuals must learn, and those in relation to individuals must be come teachers…education is not about teaching students to learn, but also about teaching them to engage actively in life…”
Hansen, D.T. (2007). Tao Xingzhi and the Emergence of Public Education in China, in Ethical visions of education. Teachers College, Columbia University: New York New York.
