<P> Humanistic educators believe that both feelings and knowledge are important to the learning process . Unlike traditional educators, humanistic teachers do not separate the cognitive and affective domains . This aspect also relates to the curriculum in the sense that lessons and activities provide focus on various aspects of the student and not just rote memorization through note taking and lecturing . </P> <P> Humanistic educators believe that grades are irrelevant and that only self - evaluation is meaningful . Grading encourages students to work for a grade and not for intrinsic satisfaction . Humanistic educators disagree with routine testing because they teach students rote memorization as opposed to meaningful learning . They also believe testing doesn't provide sufficient educational feedback to the teacher . </P> <P> "The tutor or lecturer tends to be more supportive than critical, more understanding than judgmental, more genuine than playing a role ." Their job is to foster an engaging environment for the students and ask inquiry - based questions that promote meaningful learning . </P> <P> David Aspy and Flora Roebuck performed the largest field study ever done, in 42 states and 7 countries, in the 1970s and 80s, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health over a 12 - year period, focusing on what led to achievement, creativity, more student thinking and interactivity, less violence, and both teacher and student satisfaction . Their conclusions corroborated the earlier findings of Carl Rogers's that the more effective teachers were empathic, caring for or prizing their students, and were authentic or genuine in their classroom presence . In 2010 Jeffrey Cornelius - White and Adam Harbaugh published a large meta - analysis on Learner Centered Instruction including in their analysis all the higher quality studies on person - centered or humanistic education ever done since 1948 . In 2013, Rogers, Lyon, and Tausch published On Becoming an Effective Teacher--Person - centered Teaching, Psychology, Philosophy, and Dialogues with Carl R. Rogers and Harold Lyon, which contained Rogers' last unpublished work on teaching and documented the research results of four highly related, independent studies which comprise the largest collection of data ever accumulated to test a person - centered theory in the field of education . </P>

When and where did the practice of applying humanist ideas to education began