Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.