That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
B. F. SKINNERBehavior is determined by its consequences.
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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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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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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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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 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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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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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.
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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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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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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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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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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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