Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?

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.

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.

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

Men build society and society builds men.

The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.