A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
B. F. SKINNERThe only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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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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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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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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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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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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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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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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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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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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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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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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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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