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Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
B. F. Skinner
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B. F. Skinner
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 20
Died: 1990
Died: August 18
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner
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