A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

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.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

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.