If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
B. F. SkinnerMany 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.
B. F. Skinner