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As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
Rebecca Goldstein Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
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As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
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Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

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