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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

B. F. Skinner

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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Best Disappointment Mistake Perspective Quit Try
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
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Development Mathematics Nature Process Reading Violence
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
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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Creation Environment Himself History Poem Poet Production
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Choice Survive Value
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
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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Action Inspirational Journey Start
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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Education Enjoyment Life
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
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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Happiness Man Production Skill
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation
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
We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Book Education Inspirational Love Reading Teaching
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

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

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