B. F. Skinner Quotes

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Learn by practice.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

Repetition is the key to real learning.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

Repetition is the father of learning.

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

To teach is to learn twice.

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Practice makes permanent.

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.