"Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings."

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Source : James Paul Gee (2005). “Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul: Pleasure and Learning”, p.29, Common Ground

James Paul Gee

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“At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.”
“Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.”
“One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.”
“A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.”
“When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.”
“I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.”
“Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.”
“I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.”

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