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

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

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

To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.

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.

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