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Each Of Us Has Interests Which Conflict The Interests Of Everybody Else... 'everybody Else' We Call 'society'. It's A Powerful Opponent And It Always Wins. Oh, Here And There An Individual Prevails For A While And Gets What He Wants. Sometimes He Storms The Culture Of A Society And Changes It To His Own Advantage. But Society Wins In The Long Run, For It Has The Advantage Of Numbers And Of Age.

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.

Punitive Measures Whether Administered By Police, Teachers, Spouses Or Parents Have Well Known Standard Effects: (1) Escape-education Has Its Own Name For That: Truancy, (2) Counterattack-vandalism On Schools And Attacks On Teachers, (3) Apathy-a Sullen Do-nothing Withdrawal. The More Violent The Punishment, The More Serious The By-products.

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.

That's All Teaching Is; Arranging Contingencies Which Bring Changes In Behavior.