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neophilia

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neophilia [ˌniːəʊˈfɪlɪə]
n
a tendency to like anything new; love of novelty
neophiliac  n


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One of the most dismal but revealing features of Finn's book is his documentation of the trendy "Progressive" neophilia that has increasingly dominated our teachers' colleges and schools of education since the 1920s.
They said people who always want to trade in their iPods, computers and cars for the latest models are victims of a genetic affliction called neophilia.
The chief consequence of setting these as program goals, and of then defining computer literacy as the means to information is neophilia.
 
 
 
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