If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.
It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.
No theory changes what it is a theory about. Nothing is changed because we look at it, talk about it, or analyze it in a new way. Keats drank confusion to Newton for analyzing the rainbow, but the rainbow remained as beautiful as ever and became for many even more beautiful. Man has not changed because we look at him, talk about him, and analyze him scientifically. ... What does change is our chance of doing something about the subject of a theory. Newton's analysis of the light in a rainbow was a step in the direction of the laser.
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 that merely resolve puzzlement.
A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego. Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured.
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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 one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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 building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.
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