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

B. F. Skinner

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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Enjoyment Philosophy Science
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
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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Explanation History Mindset Person Work
Men build society and society builds men.
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Architect Build Men Society
Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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Children Education Himself Myself
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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Best Disappointment Mistake Perspective Quit Try
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Attack Help Society
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Control Himself Men
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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Acceptance Education Honesty Intellectual Value
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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Creation Environment Himself History Poem Poet Production
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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Accomplishment Education Fear Live Punishment Trouble
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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Easy Education Improvement Men Moon School
We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Book Education Inspirational Love Reading Teaching
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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Action Inspirational Journey Start
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Experience Music Pieces
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
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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Explanation History Mindset Person Work
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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Control Freedom Improvement Issues Men Mistake
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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Consumer Future People Save World
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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Control Education Mystery Relationship Responsible Satisfaction Simplicity View
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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Deep Love Positive
Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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Education Learning Need Teaching
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Education Forget Graduation Survive Teacher
That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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Behavior Change Teaching Transformation
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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Construction Problem Problem Solving
To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Control Deep Different Way
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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Development Mathematics Nature Process Reading Violence

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