B. F. Skinner on education
B. F. Skinner107 quotes“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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B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner 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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B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner 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.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
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