B. F. Skinner on education
B. F. Skinner107 quotes“Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.”
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We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner 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.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner 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.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner Men build society and society builds men.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner …not everyone is willing to defend a position of ‘not knowing.’ There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner 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.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner
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