“Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.” WellsSchoolNamesParentKnownTeacherEffectsSeriousProductsStandardsPolicePunishmentViolentApathySpouseWell KnownWithdrawalSullenVandalismTruancy Author:B. F. Skinner
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” Has BeensMoneyEducationKnowledgeLearningTeacherTeachingForgottenEducationalGraduationStudent SuccessGreat TeacherGood TeacherTeaching ChildrenGreat EducationTeaching And LearningSchool TeachersSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeachers And TeachingTeaching EducationTeacher StudentTeaching LearningTeacher And StudentInspirational EducationFunny GraduationGreat TeachingEducation And KnowledgeGood TeachingMath EducationHigh School GraduationStudents And EducationInspirational GraduationStudent LearningInspirational EducationalKnowledge And LearningValue Of EducationKnowledge LearningInspirational High School GraduationBehaviorismEducation For AllImportance Of EducationTeaching StudentsRelated To EducationTeachers Learning From StudentsWhat Is EducationAcademic EducationCool GraduationMotivational GraduationTeacher MotivationalTeacher TrainingMethods Of TeachingEffective Teaching Author:B. F. Skinner
“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 has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.” SeemsTeacherTeachingConditionsStudentsProveBehaviorTasksFunctionFormalArrangementsEnjoyableFormal Education Author:B. F. Skinner
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.” ShouldBookReadingLiteratureEducationTeachKnowingTeacherGoes OnAchievementReading BooksGreat BookGreat AchievementSuperficialityLove Of ReadingTrivialityJoy Of Reading Author:B. F. Skinner
“Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.” WayNeedsTeachTeacherTeachingTaught Author:B. F. Skinner
“The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.” WayProblemWinningParentTeacherBehaviorAffectionSolveApprovalFlatteryCounterfeitParents And TeachersPingBehavior Problems Author:B. F. Skinner
