He and his mother and father all graduated from the same high school. This was the same school that he had attended for all twelve years of his education. Skinner attended Hamilton College at the recommendation of a family friend. He took many different types of courses before deciding to major in English and minor in Romance Languages. Skinner felt that he did not fit in at college. He disliked the fraternity that he had joined and he did not understand why the college required the courses that it did. The summer before his senior year he attended the Middlebury School of English at Breadloaf, Vermo

In the Fall, Skinner went off to Harvard to begin his study of Psychology. Animal behavior had always interested Skinner, but Human behavior was his main interest. He had always taken notice of the way that people reacted to certain situations. This interest had become obvious when he was in grade school and had continued throughout the rest of his life. Skinner worked hard for the first time in his life at Harvard. He realized that he was far behind in his studies. For two years he did nothing but study psychology and go to his classes. He graduated in 1931. In the spring of 1936 the end of Skinner's junior Fellowship was approaching and he had no job. The best job offer that the Department of Psychology could pass along to him was from a YMCA college. Skinner had a friend who was teaching that summer at Minnesota, and he mentioned Skinner to R.M. Elliott, who was looking for someone to teach small sections of a big introductory course. This was the first time that Skinner had taught anything. Skinner experienced a renewed interest in Literature when he realized that the written word could also be analyzed for human

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