Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierachy of needs, a theory of self-actualisation. Maslow says that the aim of all good learning or education is self-actualisation. By this he means to become the best person you can possibly be, to fulfill your dreams, your potential as a human being. But before you can do that you have to fell good about more basic things, you have to fulfill certain needs; for example, physiological needs. by this we mean things like feeling too cold. or too hot; being hungry or thirsty. So you can't learn properly if you're thinking about food or if your seat is not comfortable. you need to satisfy these physiological needs before you can learn . Then there's safety: you can't learn if you are in danger, either physically or mentally , emotionally. So bullying at school is an example of not feeling safe or if there's a war on and your life is in danger your mind will not be on learning . This is connected to the next level: we need to feel loved and that we belong to the group; it's like feeling you are a part of a family, you're amongst friends. Self-esteem: it's the feeling that you are as good as other people and that you deserve respect and happiness. it's feeling good about yourself; this will of course affect your school results but will also make it possible to fulfill your aims in life to become a complete, happy human being...which is what Maslow calls self-actualisation