I just finished reading another obituary for O. Ivar Lovaas, which ended with this astounding statement:
To the end of his career, Dr. Lovaas was adamant that applied behavior analysis was supremely useful in childhood interventions of all kinds. “If I had gotten Hitler here at U.C.L.A. at the age of 4 or 5,” he told Los Angeles magazine in 2004, “I could have raised him to be a nice person.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/health/23lovaas.html I don't know whether this is a result of a stunning ego, underappreciation on my part, or maybe he was misquoted, like Freud in his statement about the Nazis. What think you? Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4446 or send a blank email to leave-4446-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu