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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

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مدينة الشيطان by حسين محمد إسماعيل

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"أهل القرية بسطاء، بل بالغو البساطة لدرجة أن أي تغيير مفاجئ سينزع الاطمئنان من قلوبهم. لعلك تجد في ثيابهم الرثة وأسلوب حياتهم القديم أمرًا معيبًا وغير متوافق مع العصر الحديث. ولكنهم مرتاحون بهذا الشكل. يحبون حياتهم، ويتطلعون لها يومًا بعد ...more

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“Melvin Kranzberg, a historian, once observed “technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
― Bill Hammack, Eight Amazing Engineering Stories: Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies

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“Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control aren’t working hard—but that’s because they’ve made it automatic,”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

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“The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.”6”
― Anonymous

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“Vohs and her colleagues suggest that as societies began to use money, the need to rely on family and friends diminished, and people were able to become more self-sufficient. “In this way,” they conclude, “money enhanced individualism but diminished communal motivations, an effect that is still apparent in people’s responses today.”
― Anonymous

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“for All Ages Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. —HENRY FORD It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. —MARGARET MEAD”
― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

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