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

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

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 majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.

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

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.