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I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having…

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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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