Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition (1999). Chapter 3:Some Issues Concerning the Control of Human Behavior. Quote 6

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Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition (1999). Chapter 3:Some Issues Concerning the Control of Human Behavior. Quote 6

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By admiring the student for knowledge and blaming him for ignorance, we escape some of the responsibility of teaching him. (p. 30)

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