“Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.”

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

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.

Men build society and society builds men.

Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

…not everyone is willing to defend a position of ‘not knowing.’ There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

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.

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.

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

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.

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.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Education doesn’t just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

All of life is a constant education.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.