I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. SkinnerMany 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.
B. F. SkinnerSomehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
B. F. Skinner