[DannyTN]

Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do."

Actually I think that's true of most education. From grade school through college.

Get the best instructors, on tape. Then computerize it with quizzes and progress indicators.

There is absolutely no reason we need hundreds of thousands of math instructors, when computers could teach better, cleaner, consistently at the rate of the student, as opposed to the rate of the slowest student.

[riverdawg]

Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do.”
“Actually I think that's true of most education. From grade school through college.

Get the best instructors, on tape. Then computerize it with quizzes and progress indicators.

There is absolutely no reason we need hundreds of thousands of math instructors, when computers could teach better, cleaner, consistently at the rate of the student, as opposed to the rate of the slowest student.”

The big fad in the early 1960s in math education was self-paced learning. My 8th grade algebra teacher gave us a workbook and told us to work the problems at our own pace. Most of us spent the class time daydreaming or passing notes back and forth. It took me several years of “hard knocks” in future conventional math classes to make up for that one disastrous class.