The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
B. F. SKINNERSome of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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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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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student’s life.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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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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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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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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The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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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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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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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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Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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