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.

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.