Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
B. F. SKINNERChaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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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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But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
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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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I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
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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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An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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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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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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It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
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A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
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