Two things I’ve recently read making a connection “To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o’clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. [...]
8.37 to Cannon Street Two children. One with pencil and A4 pad. The other with newspaper open at sports pages. The latter reads out football scores (often having to spell out the teams in full), the former writes them down. As they get off the train they both ask their father to promise that he [...]
I’ve been reading about all types of Reinforcement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement) and particularly Positive and Negative Reinforcement. The behavioural researcher B.F. Skinner’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.F._Skinner) definition of “reinforcement as creating situations that a person likes or removing a situation he doesn’t like, and punishment as removing a situation a person likes or setting up one he doesn’t like” is [...]