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The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of books are only a means to this end. We develop power and courage and determination and we go out to achieve Truth, Wisdom and Justice. If we do not come to this, the cost of schooling is wasted.

John B. Watson

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John B. Watson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 9
Died: 1958
Died: September 25
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The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.
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