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That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

B. F. Skinner

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
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Men Question Reality Technology Thinking
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
Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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Action Battle Boredom
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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Attitude Citizenship Destroy Loyalty Promise
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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Admire Explanation Extent People Word
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Choice Survive Value
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
Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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Attitude Determination
If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Control Government Leaving Source
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Education Forget Graduation Survive Teacher
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
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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Abuse Deep Education Important Listening Mental Skin Talk Violence
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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Education End Simplicity
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
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

That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

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