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.
B. F. SKINNERWas putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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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Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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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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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
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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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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
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It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.
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