Argues that there is a major need for greatly increased exploration of personal approaches to good teaching and broader application of perceptual-humanistic thinking to all aspects of teacher education. (Author/JG)

Humanistic education is a systematic, conscious attempt to put into practice the best we know about the nature of human beings and how they learn. Humanistic education maintains that what students experience about themselves and their world is far too important for education to overlook. (Author/IRT)

Notes four certainties about the future (the continuing information explosion, the increasing pace of change, the growing primacy of social problems, and the increasing importance of personal fulfillment) and the implications these changes have for education. (IRT)

Presents three short papers. The first defends the humanistic approach to education; the second defends the value of behavioral objectives and evaluation techniques in education; the third argues that humanism and behaviorism are not necessarily contradictory and that both approaches have their place. (JG)

If education is to meet the current and future needs of our society, humanistic objectives and humanistic thought must operate at the very heart of every school and classroom in the nation. (Author)

Applying the principles of affective education will help students learn anything better, including the basics. Student learning depends on four highly affective factors: self-concept, feelings of challenge or threat, values, and feelings of belonging or being cared for. (Author/JM)