Recent Issues. Chapter 8: The School of the Future. Quote 3

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Recent Issues. Chapter 8: The School of the Future. Quote 3

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Post published:February 14, 2019
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“Some young people are good students. They scarcely need to be taught. They learn in spite of the quality of teacher or school.” (p. 86)

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Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 8: The Verbal Operant as a Unit of Analysis. Quote 5
The pathological condition of verbal behavior called aphasia often emphasizes functional differences which are hard to understand in terms of the traditional account … The aphasic has lost some of the functional relationships which control his verbal behavior. A response of a given form may no longer be under the control of one functional relation, although it is still under the control of another. (p. 190)
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“Some young people are good students. They scarcely need to be taught. They learn in spite of the quality of teacher or school.” (p. 86)

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