No one wants to hear this, but it’s true. Either we can value education — not for a select few but for anyone willing to put in the effort — and provide the requisite resources, or we can watch it become a pursuit available only to an elite minority, with everyone else getting a cheap facsimile
"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark, all is deluge." - Horace Mann
A lot of the same people who love to preach the value of hard work and who say “there are no shortcuts!” are selling (cheap and low-value) shortcuts
They’re also selling the notion that we don’t need government printed dollars to pay our banks back And that the most fundamental question we need to ask is what our government should pay for when it gets dollars into the economy? Versus what should banks fund when they issue loans?
So, once step up from the Middle Ages.
Maybe an unpopular take, but we don't need to "watch it become a pursuit available only to an elite minority" because it already is. The best education has never *not* been for an elite minority. Education for everyone else has always been a facsimile — though, given, of vastly varying quality.
I don't want this to be understood as "actually AI tutors are fine." I'm for more $$ for schools + less for AI. Just because 1 teacher teaching a class of 25 students isn't as effective as expensive 1:1 tutoring doesn't mean we should swap the teacher out for terrible slop bots.
For higher ed yes. Below that it should be excellent for people not willing to put in the effort as well
Or we can do what the Russian oligarchs that the Republican party is modeling themselves after, and the rich will send their children to the civilized world for education (and probably to live).
And we should start very early because social inertia can be very hard. Everyone deserves an opportunity for a quality education It makes all of us better Benefits Everyone
Like self driving cars. The talk of the high tech solution that would revolutionize education is just around the corner (20 years ago it was video classes, now its AI) So obvious at this point its all gaslighting to justify underfunding popular programs (schools, public transport).
This is already the case
Like with everything in my life - cheap facsimile is all I get, there is no other way for me to satisfy my hunger for knowledge - no-one to ask except for AI. As long as I continue to treat it as a machine, that is better than nothing.