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.

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.

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

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.

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.