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.

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

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

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

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

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

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.