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Renowned behaviorist B.F. Skinner, Pierce Professor of Psychology Emeritus, also issued harsh words of criticism from the Ed School yesterday. Skinner, departing considerably from his intended speech on computer-aided learning, said the government book does not offer "a single thing of use" to teachers and said he was "terribly disappointed...
...Skinner said the Education Department'spublishing "What Works" would be similar to theDefense Department's publishing a layman's book onhow to fight battles. His analogy provokedlaughter from the audience...
...order to win their suit, which is being tried in Boston Federal District Court by Judge Walter Jay Skinner, the plaintiffs must demonstrate a direct correlation between the polluted wells and the high leukemia rate, parties to the case said...
Daniel Oran recently made his case against the current law suit pending in Santa Barbara (November 27), recalling the classical notions of free will, necessity, and choice. He then stretched his argument to include the modern behaviorism of B.F. Skinner, concluding that inherent in the plaintiff's argument exists a contradiction. By that be surmised that tobacco companies should not be held responsible for their product's effects, if they were in fact knowledgeable of the cigarette's effects long before the Surgeon General...
...people who smoke want to, but Skinner would ask, why do they want to? Since Pasteur, we no longer believe in the spontaneous generation of life, yet we still believe in the spontaneous generation of thoughts and feelings. Thoughts and feelings, though, have a physical basis--the brain. And the brain is changed by our every interaction with the environment. We want to, then, because of some unique personal history of interaction with the environment...