Walden Two (1948) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Mr. Frazier: Add a description of this character.
• Steve
• Mary
• Barbara
• Rodge
• Mrs. Meyerson
• Burris
• Mrs. Nash
• Mr. Castle
• Rogers
• Jamnik
• Thoreau
• Rachel
• Fergy

Quotes edit see section history

• “We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.”

  Frazier

• “Education should be only life itself.”

  Frazier

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• But something is wrong when it is the system that must be saved rather than the way of life that the system is supposed to serve.

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• The main thing is, we encourage our people to view every habit and custom with an eye to possible improvement. A constantly experimental attitude toward everything—that’s all we need. Solutions to problems of every sort follow almost miraculously.”

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• In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.”

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• Governments must always be right—they can’t experiment because they can’t admit doubt or question.

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• “Here, there’s no reason to feel that anyone is necessary to anyone else. Each of us is necessary in the same amount, which is very little.

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• “My answer is simple enough,” said Frazier. “I deny that freedom exists at all. I must deny it—or my program would be absurd. You can’t have a science about a subject matter which hops capriciously about. Perhaps we can never prove that man isn’t free; it’s an assumption. But the increasing success of a science of behavior makes it more and more plausible.”

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• Our goal is to have every adult member of Walden Two regard all our children as his own, and to have every child think of every adult as his parent.

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• “No, Mr. Castle, we strike for economic freedom at this very point—by devising a very high standard of living with a low consumption of goods. We consume less than the average American.”

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• Political action was of no use in building a better world, and men of good will had better turn to other measures as soon as possible. Any group of people could secure economic self-sufficiency with the help of modern technology, and the psychological problems of group living could be solved with available principles of “behavioral engineering.”

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• We don’t need ‘grades.’ Everyone knows that talents and abilities don’t develop at the same rate in different children. A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Walden Two
• Walk
• Russia

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. B. F. Skinner (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Professional & Technical › Professional Science › Behavioral Sciences › Behavioral Psychology
• Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
• Books › Science › Behavioral Sciences › Behavioral Psychology
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling