Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Programming.
I submit that the ideal educator is a mentor who challenges the (actually a single ) student to think. And to correct his/her own errors. An individual mentor for each student doesn’t scale. But it very well could be possible for AI to synthesize a mentor for each student; that would scale. Especially in a home school setting. But then, if there are multiple children in a given home, a single AI teacher might synthesize a salutary one-room-schoolhouse effect.“Students and our country need to be in relationship with other human beings,” said Randi Weingarten, the president of . . . a teachers’ union. “When you have a school that is strictly A.I., it is violating that core precept of the human endeavor and of education.”
I come from a line of teachers - Mother, Father, both grandfathers, and one grandmother taught. Dad did switch to a more remunerative line of work, but . . .A consequence was that when we were taught grammar in class it seemed redundant to me - if a statement were ungrammatical it would sound wrong to me, and if it weren’t it wouldn’t. Pretty much that was it.
My mother was in the National Education Association long before it became a union, and I was saddened when she said she had to walk a picket line. I would have felt worse yet, had I foreseen the depravity - practicing on the vulnerability of immature, confused children and adolescents to gull them into transgenderism, teaching them contempt for the founders of America, etc.