“The digital playground is an incredibly cruel playground.”
The Keys to Well-being in Students, Presentation to the X NIS International Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, 26 October 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hG_p7sujU)
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Gordon Neufeld 4
Canadian psychologist 1947Related quotes
“The game of sociology goes on in a spacious playground.”
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