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needed to motivate students. The American scientific theory of education plays 

a good example here. This widely supported theory argues that young learners are 

most motivated when they share an emotional relationship with their instructor. As 

most would agree expecting children to form emotional ties to machinery is unreal-

istic, the argument that technology will replace the teacher in the classroom can be 

debunked.

However, a computerised teacher would not tire, and this endurance makes it the optimal 

choice for lesson exercises that require repetition. A primitive instance of this is exem-

plified by iPad apps that teach young children simple vocabulary in entertaining ways.

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Because this machinery-based lesson arrangement can carry on indefinitely, children can 

continue learning for much longer periods of time than realistically possible with a human 

teacher. As convincing as this point is, exercises requiring repetition are only a small 

part of the overall teaching process. Thus, technology cannot be expected to carry out all