Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
B. F. SKINNERThe 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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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
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The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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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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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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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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Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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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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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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