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Education Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
- 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…
- An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
- Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those…
- The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is…
- The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process…
- The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop…
- 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.
- Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
- A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop…
- I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what…
- Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
- Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
- Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible,…
- A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
- 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.…
- The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to…
- Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
More Education Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe