When I was a child, I wanted to learn how to play chess. I didn’t progress beyond the basic moves, but one day I was playing against another child and suddenly several people gathered around the table. I didn’t know why. They were smiling at me. A few minutes later, the mystery of the gathering was …
Blog posts September 2018
Sadness, death emerge among the common thoughts of children and teens
A few days ago, I was exiting a local store when two elementary school students, clearly brother and sister, where walking right there and talking to each other. For a few seconds, I heard their conversation before they just walked away.
“I am sad”, said the boy, probably around 10.
“Is th…
Whom are you going to believe if you keep lying to yourself?
With his well-known humor, Mark Twain once asked, “Whom are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?” That question, with all its hilarity, is not as innocent as it looks because, after all, we see with our brains, not with our eyes.
Anais Nin expressed a similar thought when she said, “W…
What would happen when robot teachers replace all human teachers?
Robot teachers are not new, but what is new is the growing number of robot teachers replacing human teachers in many countries. Even more interesting, children relate better to robot teachers than to human teachers.
Whatever that may be, experts say in the next 10 to 15 years robot teachers will …
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