It was part of the reform movement known as progressive education to make the positive consequences more immediately effective, but anyone who visits the lower grades of the average school today will observe that a change has been made, not from aversive to positive control, but from one form of aversive stimulation to another. (p. 183)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 12: The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching. Quote 15
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