Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
B. F. SKINNER
We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.
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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
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The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.
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A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
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It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code – a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren’t any right people.
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The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of “winning friends.
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The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
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