We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. SKINNERIt 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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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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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.
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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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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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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.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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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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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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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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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us – here and now.
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