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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…
• Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
• A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns…
• A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the…
• Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
• Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which…
• That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is…
• The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a…
• The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense…
• We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
• Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair…

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