"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach……" — B.F. Skinner

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• Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of… — Henry M. Morris
• An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin. — B.F. Skinner
• Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without… — B.F. Skinner
• The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of… — B.F. Skinner
• The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It… — B.F. Skinner
• The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all… — B.F. Skinner
• If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has… — Richard Rosen
• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The… — B.F. Skinner
• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made… — B.F. Skinner
• Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. — B.F. Skinner
• Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even… — B.F. Skinner
• A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature… — B.F. Skinner

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