"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
-B. F. Skinner
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"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
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"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."
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"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment."
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"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
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"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
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