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I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.

B. F. Skinner

I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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Animal Learning Myself Teaching
Some 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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Blame Born Education Failure Live Ourselves Understand Way Wrong
To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Control Deep Different Way
Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
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Himself Man Nature Past Understand World
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Animal Difference Learning People
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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Deep Love Positive
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Act Chance Repeat
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Carry Important Positive Reality Way
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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Attitude Judgement Person
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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Effort Greatness Invention Learning Man Pain Possible Reality Word World
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself
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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Explanation History Mindset Person Work
Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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Action Battle Boredom
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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Army Battle Fear People
To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Control Deep Different Way
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source

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