Our selection today comes from Freedom to Learn – for the 80’s. “Student-centered learning owes much to Carl Rogers and his approach to client-centered therapy. In fact, he wrote a whole book that addresses some of the places they connect and more. And of experience, Rogers said, “Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person’s ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me.” -Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person

This is an image of page 156 of Freedom to Learn for the 80’s

In 1969, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner introduced Teaching as a Subversive Activity with this, “THIS BOOK is based on two assumptions of ours. One, it seems to us, is indisputable; the other, highly questionable. We refer to the beliefs that (a) in general, the survival of our society is threatened by an increasing number of unprecedented and, to date, insoluble problems; and (b) that something can be done to improve the situation. If you do not know which of these is indisputable and which questionable, you have just finished reading this book.

This is an image of page 30 of the book.