Burrhus Frederic Skinner

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904 – 1990), B F Skinner in short, was a US psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

- Education in 1984

• We sbouldn't teach great books; w e should teach a love of reading.

- quoted in Richard I. Evans, B.F. Skinner : The Man and His Ideas

• The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.

- Contingencies of Reinforcement

Thomas Waller