Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
B. F. SKINNERA permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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The 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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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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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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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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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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The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
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Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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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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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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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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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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The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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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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The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior – verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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 piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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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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