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Can Behaviourism be considered a philosophy of education?
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June 14, 2012

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Nicholas D. Smith
June 21, 2012 (changed June 21, 2012) Permalink

Why not? It provides a way to mold behaviors (which, in an extreme form of behaviorism, is all there is to mental states anyway), and so the acquisition of new behaviors would be (all there is to) education.

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