B.F. Skinner
"A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process."
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"A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process."
"قد يكون قارئ الصف الرابع، رياضياً يضاهي"
B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
"Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code -- a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people--or, rather, there aren't any right people."
"تتوافر لدى المجتمع بالفعل الأساليب النفسية الكفيلة بتحقيق التزام عام بمدونة سلوك، مدونة تضمن ازدهار أي جماعة أو دولة. غير أن الصعوبة تكمن في أن هذه الأساليب في قبضة من لا يستحقونها، بل الأدهى من ذلك، لا يوجد أصلاً من هو أهل لحملها."
B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
"In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man."
"في عالمنا الواسع، نادرًا ما نصوّت لمبدأ أو لوضع قائم بذاته. إننا نصوّت لرجل يدّعي الإيمان بذلك المبدأ أو يعد بتحقيق تلك الحالة. لا نريد رجلاً، بل نريد حالة من السلام والرخاء – أو ربما الحرب والفاقة – لكننا مجبرون على التصويت لرجل."
B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
"“In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.”"
"في عموم الأمر، قلما ننتخب مبدأً أو واقعًا قائمًا بذاته. بل ننتخب رجلاً يدعي الإيمان بذلك المبدأ، أو يعد بتحقيق ذلك الواقع. لا نبتغي رجلاً، إنما نبتغي حالة من السلم والرخاء – أو ربما حربًا وشظفًا – لكن لا مناص لنا من انتخاب رجل."
B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten."
"التعليم هو ما يبقى بعد أن يُنسى كل ما تعلمته"
B.F. Skinner
"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man."
"ليس السؤال الحقيقي هل تفكر الآلات، بل هل يفكر البشر. فالغموض الذي يكتنف الآلة المفكرة يكتنف الإنسان المفكر بالفعل."
B.F. Skinner
Contingencies of Reinforcement; A Theoretical Analysis
"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."
"إن المرء الذي عوقب لا يقل ميله ببساطة إلى التصرف بطريقة معينة؛ بل يتعلم، في أحسن الأحوال، كيف يتجنب العقاب."
B.F. Skinner
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
"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."
"لا أحد يتساءل كيف يحفز طفلاً رضيعاً. فالرضيع يستكشف كل ما يطاله بفطرته، ما لم تكن قوى كابحة قد عملت فيه بالفعل. وهذه النزعة لا تموت، بل تُمحى."
B.F. Skinner
Walden Two
"...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake."
B.F. Skinner
"I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget my opinion of chocolate sodas or the story of the amusing episode on a Spanish streetcar."
B.F. Skinner
"In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider."
B.F. Skinner
"We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement."
B.F. Skinner
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