If Julie Vargas was seething, it must have been very quietly (not her style). And all in all, I'd say that Skinner's reputation has held up better than Spock's. These days, if you say 'Spock' to someone they'll think of Star Trek.
On May 30, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Allen Esterson wrote: >> Vargas is a retired education professor who today runs the B. F. > Skinner Foundation out of a one-room office in Cambridge, > Massachusetts, a block away from Harvard Yard… Vargas can’t seem to > help seething a bit about how her father’s work was perceived. She > showed me a letter written in 1975 by the then wildly popular and > influential pediatrician Benjamin Spock, who had been asked to comment > on Skinner’s work for a documentary. “I’m embarrassed to say I haven’t > read any of his work,” Spock wrote, “but I know that it’s fascist and > manipulative, and therefore I can’t approve of it.”< > > http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/the-perfected-self/8970/?single_page=true Paul Brandon 10 Crown Hill Lane Mankato, MN 56001 [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18087 or send a blank email to leave-18087-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
