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.
B. F. SKINNERThat’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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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’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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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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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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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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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 major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
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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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