[b]B.F. Skinner
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.[/b]
You know, whatever that means.
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn’t die out, it’s wiped out.
Usually [as they say] for its own good. Though it’s not like [as often as not] this isn’t true.
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
And you know where this leads.
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Well, the clever ones, anyway.
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
Conflicting goodwills among them no doubt.
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
Tell that to the objectivists. We are free to embrace their dogmas…or become “retards”.