Topics: Education, Perseverance, Real, Failure In Life, Do Not Give Up

Topics: Education, Views, Mysterious, Behaviorism, Nonverbal
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
source: - "Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much". Book by Jonathon Lazear and Wendy Lazear, p. 5, 1993.
Topics: Reality, Important, Way, Reinforcement, Positive Reinforcement
Topics: Education, Baby, Curiosity, Behaviorism
source: - B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.257, Hackett Publishing
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
source: - "The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans (p. 73), 1968.
Topics: Inspiring, Education, Book, Joy Of Reading, Libraries And Reading
source: - B. F. Skinner (2014). “Verbal Behavior”, p.145, B. F. Skinner Foundation
Topics: Education, Important, Skins, Behaviorism
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
source: - New Scientist 21 May 1964
Topics: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Topics: Real, Science, Technology, Science And Technology, Educational Technology
Topics: Intelligent, Men, Numbers
Topics: Education, Doe, May, Fourth Grade, Sixth Grade
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
Topics: Probability, Consequence
source: - "Beyond Freedom and Dignity". Book by B. F. Skinner, 1972.
Topics: Punishment, Way, Psychological
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
source: - B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.282, Hackett Publishing
Topics: Names, What Is Love, Vices, Positive Reinforcement
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Topics: Society, Individual, Helpless, Positive Reinforcement, Superego
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
source: - B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.116, Hackett Publishing
Topics: Men, Genius, Chaos, Behaviorism
source: - B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.97, Hackett Publishing
Topics: Weakness, Power Of Love, Force
Topics: Different, Variables, Way, Different Meanings
Topics: Education, Men, Genius, Behaviorism
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
Topics: Problem, Problem Solving, Construction
source: - Source: www.yesmagazine.org
source: - "The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology Vol. 4". Book edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Raymond A. Horn, Ch. 99, p. 872 ("Unpacking the Skinner Box : Revisiting B. F. Skinner through a Postformal Lens" by Dana Salter), 2008.
Topics: Education, Reality, Design, Behaviorism
Topics: Education, Understanding, Way, Wrong Way, Behaviorism
Topics: Children, World, Favors, Deserve You, Providers
Topics: Punishment, Doe, Tasks, Behaviorism
Topics: Lying, Men, Differences
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
Topics: Self, Behavior, Given, Contingency
Topics: Selfish, Ideas, Desire, Damn You, Selfish Desire
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
Topics: Tendencies, Aggression, Clear
Topics: Memories, Men, Thinking, Historical Events
Topics: Jobs, Long, Psychology
Topics: Philosophy, Answers, May
Topics: Father, Responsibility, People, Trust Worthy
Topics: Men, Giving, Definitions, Reinforcement
source: - B.F Skinner (2012). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Reinforcement, Facts, Behavior
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
Topics: Teaching, Behavior, Contingency
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
Topics: Technology, Comfort, Damage
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
Topics: Government, Source
Topics: Intelligent, Men, Personality, Introversion, Intelligent Man
Topics: Punishment, People, Threat
Topics: Practice, Achievement, Society
Topics: Real, Book, Men, Great Inventions, Real World
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
source: - B.F Skinner (2012). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Environmental, Doe, Poet, Initiate, Environmental History
Topics: Practice, People, Crowds, Overcrowding
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
source: - B. F. Skinner (2016). “The Technology of Teaching”, p.144, B. F. Skinner Foundation
Topics: Mind, Evolution, Said, Personal History, Endowment
Topics: War, Practice, People, Human Behavior, Contraceptives
Topics: Education, Honesty, Intellectual, Intellectual Honesty, Behaviorism
Topics: Education, Achievement, Sound, Productions, Behaviorism
Topics: Education, World, Impossible, Behaviorism
Topics: Running, Interesting, Principles
Topics: Hands, People, Community, Observance
Topics: Teacher, Winning, Parent, Behavior Problems, Ping
Topics: Hands, Culture, Novelty, Rapid Change, Stable
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
Topics: Differences, People, Rats
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
Topics: Behavior, Persons, Consequence
Topics: Illusion, Humans, Human Happiness, Illusion Of Freedom
source: - "I have been misunderstood". Center Magazine Interview (pp. 63-65), March/April 1972.
Topics: Disappointment, Errors, Might
Topics: Teacher, School, Punishment, Vandalism, Sullen
source: - B.F. SKINNER (1948). “WALDEN TWO”
source: - B.F Skinner (1965). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.430, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Mutation, Reinforcement, Behavior, Selected
source: - B. F. Skinner (2015). “Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition”, p.309, B. F. Skinner Foundation
source: - B.F Skinner (2012). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.434, Simon and Schuster
Topics: Holocaust, Waiting, Nuclear, Overpopulation