AI is exposing the many flaws of the broken education system

AI tools are showing us just how broken the education system really is.

There was an article I saw recently talking about the damning AI double standard in education…

Teachers are using AI to grade school papers and prepare learning plans — yet they’re banning students from using it.

ChatGPT getting banned in schools and universities tells you everything you need to know about the education system.

School doesn’t prepare anyone for the real world.

If they did then none of these tools clearly used in the real-world would be banned.

All most schools do is feed you with unnecessary or esoteric knowledge you wouldn’t need to use in the vast majority of cases.

In university they box you into a cage of specialization to meet the requirements for a job.

And for most of the jobs, you didn’t even need to know half of the things they made you learn to get the certificate.

Assignments and exams for the most part only test how much you can recall information.

They test your memory retrieval ability. They don’t test your thinking process.

They don’t test how sharp your mental models for solving problems are.

So of course if they allowed AI tools like ChatGPT, everyone would get a perfect score in every exam.

Because all the knowledge is already out there.

Actually, AI is making it pretty clear that assignments and exams shouldn’t even really exist.

If school was really about learning, then the focus would be on personalized, hands-on, interactive practice.

It wouldn’t be about knowing the “right” answers and getting a terrible grade if you don’t.

Grades wouldn’t even be a thing, at least in their current form.

School wouldn’t be about getting the correct solution if you want to “pass”, it would be about becoming someone who can solve problems — especially big picture problems that really matter in life — or at least should really matter.

And using powerful tools to help us solve the problems even easier and faster.

And what if AI could eventually solve the problem entirely without us even having to think about it?

Would it be so wrong to have AI “think” for us, especially for irrelevant problems we’d rather not handle ourselves?

Relatively boring, repetitive problems?

Problems that already have well-established and predictable methods for solving them that today’s AI’s could easily internalize and replicate.

Problems like coding, for the most part.

But sadly most schools mainly exist to take your money and produce certified knowledge warehouses.

They’re not about big-picture, original thinking or the pursuit of happiness.

Too idealistic, right?

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