When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

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

To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.

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.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.