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Been Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- 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…
- A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the…
- 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. It…
- 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.
- 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…
- Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to…
- It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
- Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is…
- A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for…
- Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done…
- No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work.…
- No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
- I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well…
- Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
- Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
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