I began to wonder, just how much detail did one have to cover in the syllabus regarding expectations that would normally be assumed of thinking, responsible, considerate adults? Expecting a world of higher education in which students pursued ideas and knowledge because they wanted to improve and enrich their lives, I instead found what I regarded as a very mean and nasty Skinnerian world in which students wouldn't do anything unless it specifically and directly affected their grade. Thus, while students' reading the books for a class would affect their grade indirectly, they wouldn't read the books unless you quizzed them on the material, and then only if the quizzes counted as a significant percent of the grade. pages 14-15