Humanistic education

Not to be confused with liberal arts education or classical education. See liberal arts.

Humanistic education (also called person-centered education) is an approach to education based on the work of humanistic psychologists, most notably Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. Rogers is regarded as the founder of humanistic psychology, devoting much of his efforts toward applying the results of his psychological research to person-centered teaching. This teaching style is guided by empathy, where student well-being and genuineness on the part of the learning facilitator were found to be the key traits of the most effective teachers. He edited a series of books dealing with humanistic education in his "Studies of the Person Series," which included his book, Freedom to Learn and Learning to Feel – Feeling to Learn – Humanistic Education for the Whole Man, by Harold C. Lyon, Jr.

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