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

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

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 major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

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

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.