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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

B. F. Skinner

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
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Born Intelligence Man Moments Problem Solve
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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Education Failure Give Up Inspirational Mistake Perseverance Reality Stop Try
Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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Education Learning Need Teaching
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.
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Acceptance Education Honesty Intellectual Value
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
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Absence Control Feeling Force Freedom
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Happiness Man Production Skill
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
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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Attitude Character Nature Novel Respect Seen Selection Theory
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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Construction Problem Problem Solving
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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Disturb Feeling Himself Intelligence Men Personality
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.
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Difference Lying Men
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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Army Battle Fear People

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