To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

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

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

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

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.

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.