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Children who are not taught to be alone will only know how to be lonely
Drawn from what Sherry Turkle said
What Sherry Turkle actually said
- Sherry Turkle Sociologist of technology at MIT, born in 1948
If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.
Where this was said
↗Connected, but alone? (TED2012 talk)ted.com
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