Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. SKINNERSociety attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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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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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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An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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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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A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he’s often sure he can find one. And that’s a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
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At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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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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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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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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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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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Going out of style isn’t a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year’s dress in order to make it worthless.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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