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.
B. F. SKINNERTeachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of “winning friends.
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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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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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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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The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
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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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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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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code – a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren’t any right people.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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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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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
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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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