Skinner is highly critical of current educational practices, and argues that they do not produce a lasting love of learning. “Suppose we wish to teach a student to read ‘good books’—books which do not...

Skinner is highly critical of current educational practices, and argues that they do not produce a lasting love of learning. “Suppose we wish to teach a student to read ‘good books’—books which do not reinforce the reader sentence by sentence or even paragraph by paragraph, but only when hundreds of pages have prepared him for a convincing denouement. The student must be exposed to a program of materials that builds up a tendency to read in the absence of reinforcement. [But] schools are likely to arrange just the wrong conditions, [as by forcing] books on students before they have had adequate preparation. It is therefore not surprising that few students even in good universities learn to read books of this sort and do so for the rest of their lives” (1968, p. 79). What is your evaluation of Skinner’s criticism?