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To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

B. F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Education Forget Graduation Survive Teacher
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Education End Simplicity
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn’t given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
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Anxiety Death Myself Worry
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
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
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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Consumer Future People Save World
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
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Carry Important Positive Reality Way
Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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Education Learning Need Teaching
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
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
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Experience Music Pieces
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
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Important Talk
Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
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Dignity Freedom People Punishment
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Attack Help Society
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Change Men Science See Transformation

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

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