We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics w….

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmenta….

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are ab….

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom..

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom..

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers..

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading..

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….

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die..

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background..

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an ope….

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa..

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten..

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior..

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it..

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..

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount..

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about..

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences.

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own nam….

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled..