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"I’m listening to the episodes about the Power Broker on the 99% Invisible podcast and really enjoying the stories in this." — Mar 13, 2024 06:54PM
"I’m listening to the episodes about the Power Broker on the 99% Invisible podcast and really enjoying the stories in this." — Mar 13, 2024 06:54PM
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Rowdiness and irreverence seemed to be the norm among the kids. Even from behind a still-towering language barrier, I knew I’d never seen students talk to teachers the way Americans did. But what astonished me most was how the informalities appeared to cut both ways. Their dynamic was often adversarial, but jocular as well. Even warm. On an otherwise imposing first day, I instantly knew one thing: I would love American teachers.”
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
“To an ESL student, every class is an English class.”
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
“Ironically, being an ESL student made it easy for me to speak up. I continued to need so many words and English-language concepts explained that isolated questions became an ongoing dialogue. The more we spoke, the more I realized that he wasn’t anything like the teacher I’d overheard dismissing the intellectual capabilities of girls back in China, or the discouraging restaurant boss who’d all but mocked my love for reading. He could be terse and abrasive, but he never wrote me off the way others had. He was challenging me, and it was working.”
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
“I was in a hurry to regain even a fraction of the scholastic footing I enjoyed in China, but language was a barrier that obstructed me at every turn. Frustration rose as I trudged through each assignment at an excruciating pace, rarely making it to the end of a sentence without having to appeal to a dictionary.”
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
― The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
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