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The word’s sense of unbiased reasonableness and basic goodness means that any type of smart technology, like an innovative one, is thought by definition to be worthwhile. __Smart therefore presumes the political neutrality of the technologies we use.__
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John Patrick Leary
For Vygotsky, the relationship between instruction and development was at the core of the dialectical movement between spontaneous and scientific concepts: in the process of instruction, spontaneous concepts are the cognitive framework, the seeding ground, for the emergence of nonspontaneous (scientific) concepts. Instruction, then, is the impetus for the development of this new type of concept.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
In 1193, Malik Al-Afdal, son of Saladin, scourge of the Crusaders, deeded a parcel of land in front of the Wall to worshippers and Islamic scholars from North Africa or the Maghreb. By the time Dayan arrived in the Old City, the eight-hundred-year-old Moroccan Quarter, as it came to be known, was housing 108 families living on roughly three city blocks.
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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