It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious. (B. F. Skinner)

It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious.

B. F. Skinner

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