The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

Men build society and society builds men.

The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.