Citações de john watson

1. "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors."

2. "I can think of no greater mistake than that of giving children the freedom to develop along their own lines. The first thing to learn about child nature is that children are all born with a selfish nature."

3. "The behavior of children is controlled by the environment and not by their heredity."

4. "The best way to train a child is to leave him alone."

5. "The behavior of an individual is determined by the environment and not by his heredity."

6. "I am convinced that the child can be taught to behave in any manner of life, provided that the training is begun early and is continued persistently."

7. "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors."