Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

—B. F. Skinner

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About B. F. Skinner

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Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement in 1974.

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B. F. Skinner

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Your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Like, you'll always try your best to forget things that people say to you or about you, but you always remember. And you'll try to forget things you've seen that no one should see, but you just can't do it.

—John Corey Whaley in Where Things Come Back

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I can't forget things, or ignore them—bad things that happen. I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

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Sometimes you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Between Madison and Palmetto

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

—Iris Murdoch

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