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.
B. F. SKINNERA first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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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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A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.
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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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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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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 is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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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 admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’
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That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
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Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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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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