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.

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

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.