Behavior Quote by B. F. Skinner

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn.…

— B. F. Skinner

The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

— Ronald Gross

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life.…

— Maria Montessori

A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other…

— John Dewey

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts,…

— Alan Perlis

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on…

— Lee Iacocca

“Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning…

— Jay Cross

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

— John Dewey

It's ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.

— Michael Sandel

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally…

— John Dewey

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

— Rudolf Steiner