ABSTRACT
Life has become amazingly complex. Critical thinking is usually coupled with problem solving, and if nation and world need anything, it’s people who can solve problems. Teaching for social responsibility gives the reader an endless array of substantive issues for students to write about. Carl Rogers was the great humanistic psychologist who strongly advocated student-centered schooling. As teachers stand in their classrooms each day, they are in the center of deciding why their students go to school. Many teachers assume the real power is outside the classroom, made by bureaucrats who pass down mandates, publishers who write the textbooks, and testing companies who create the tests. Even in student-centered classrooms the teachers are the final gatekeepers of what happens in that space.
