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STOP PRESS Vol.18 No.1 
DR.COULSON, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION
EXPOSES DANGERS OF HUMANISTIC 'AFFECTIVE' EDUCATION
Well-known behavioural scientists, Dr.W.Coulson and Abraham Maslow (deceased), have each separately confessed they have harmed children through psychological techniques they taught classroom teachers to use to encourage decision-making, and self-esteem in children. Dr.MASLOW confessed that Self-esteem and Self-actualization theories should NOT have been used with children. He said undercutting teacher authority also undercut literacy.
Dr.Coulson has been confessing publicly in USA since 1983:
"Rogers and I were quite wrong. We bear some responsibility for what's gone wrong with children... It is not ..abuse to give the child direction. Programs that teach children 'to make up their own mind'..cause then to make up their mind to use drugs, or become sexually active... All the bad things that have happened to youngsters since 1965, happened from WHAT WE WHISPERED INTO THE SCHOOL'S EAR.
"Research outcomes have not been favorable to the 'affective' movement. Children have suffered .. especially those.. from caring Christian families. The well-brought up children will b e hurt by non-directive education... The direction of influence is from the users - the experimentalist..- to the non-users, to the cautious to the prudent... They all sit in a circle and scheme up together what to do about sex and drugs.... the groups promote drug use."
However, Dr. William Glasser, a colleague of Dr. Maslow's, has not changed his mind, and is this week "whispering into the ear of schools" in Queensland, promoting Reality Therapy. Maslow's confession was printed in 1970. Coulson is constantly denouncing child-centred education. WHY HAS THE DEPARTMENT IGNORED MASLOW AND COULSON, and evidence that supports them? Why deft It waste money risking more damage to children by promoting Dr.Glasser and his discredited Humanistic theories on classroom group therapy?
USA surveys whom 'Feel-Good-Now Self-Esteem' did NOT produce, and may have retarded, excellence. It produced crime, drug addiction, suicide, VD, illegitimacy, rape, tragedy, unhappiness, and hate. Behavioural scientists must cease experimenting with our children.
In This Issue:
Confessions of Dr.W.Coulson, Professor of Psychology and Education
From Your Director's Desk - Looking Back at 1988
- Looking Ahead in 1989
Membership & Subscription & Donation Form for 1989
Profile on Dr.W.R.Coulson, and re Our Bringing Him to Australia
Sex Education in Schools criticized
The Role of the Christian is To Have Influence
Order Form: for copies of Rona's 'Citizens Initiated Legislation
for copies of Rona's Submissions and Speeches
for copies of tapes on education by Dr.Coulson & others