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• Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we…
• A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns…
• Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
• That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
• Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
• A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the…
• Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which…
• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is…

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