Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it’s merely their guess.
B. F. SKINNERThat’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
More B. F. Skinner Quotes
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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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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The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
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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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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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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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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
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The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.
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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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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.
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