Saturday, September 17, 2011

[ltyogvfj] Future education

I speculate that primary education will look a lot different in the future.

For the task of learning most specific things that you want to learn, there will be online and other electronic tools, perhaps even a robot teacher who you can interact with (think IBM's Watson) who will do a better job than a human teacher.  (Human teachers will only exceed computers for extremely specific things to teach, most of which are not in primary education, except maybe Sports -- Physical Education (PE).)

So the purpose of schools will become very much more the "day care" / "prison", and the behavioral conditioning (learning against the will) to become a useful member of society.  This is a pretty dark picture.

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