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Unable To Understand How Or Why The Person We See Behaves As He Does, We Attribute His Behavior To A Person We Cannot See, Whose Behavior We Cannot Explain Either But About Whom We Are Not Inclined To Ask Questions.

The Simulated Approval And Affection With Which Parents And Teachers Are Often Urged To Solve Behavior Problems Are Counterfeit. So Are Flattery, Backslap-ping, And Many Other Ways Of "winning Friends.

In The Traditional View, A Person Is Free. He Is Autonomous In The Sense That His Behavior Is Uncaused. He Can Therefore Be Held Responsible For What He Does And Justly Punished If He Offends. That View, Together With Its Associated Practices, Must Be Re-examined When A Scientific Analysis Reveals Unsuspected Controlling Relations Between Behavior And Environment.

A Piece Of Music Is An Experience To Be Taken By Itself.

Many Instructional Arrangements Seem "contrived," But There Is Nothing Wrong With That. It Is The Teacher's Function To Contrive Conditions Under Which Students Learn. It Has Always Been The Task Of Formal Education To Set Up Behavior Which Would Prove Useful Or Enjoyable Later In A Student's Life.