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as an autodidac that did extremely poorly in school, but flourished when people FINALLY left me alone and let me concentrate on what I am interested in: I could

as an autodidac that did extremely poorly in school, but flourished when people FINALLY left me alone and let me concentrate on what I am interested in: I could not imagine what kind of hell this would be. For a lot of the population School sucks and is a waste of time.

bradleykingz 6y ago
I have the exact same feeling. I'm not sure how well these will work, but if the person isn't comfortable, it only leads to mental health issues later on on life. School is tough enough to begin with. I can't imagine how much more difficult and stressful it will be for these kids.
- admiral33 6y ago
  Obviously in this case the mental health of these students is tragically coming in second place. Beyond that it's also naive. I can't think of a faster way to destroy a work force's future variance in creativity than by having them all optimized for an opaque algorithm. Many of the world's most accomplished found their genius through events and choices that cannot be optimized for. Heart break, substance abuse, loss - to name a few.
blackrock 6y ago
What did you succeed in?
matthewfelgate 6y ago
Ah projecting YOUR experience onto everyone else. How absolutely selfish.
brobdingnagians 6y ago
Totally agree; I left high school early (no diploma) so that I could go to college. In high school I hated it, didn't do my homework, got poor grades, hated my math classes, and was generally inattentive; but I loved college, breezed through most classes, and discovered that I loved mathematics, so I majored in it, and now I've started a successful company. My experience is different than most peoples', but the key thing is that people have a _choice_ and can find out what works for them. The more we try to fit people into algorithms, and top-down control, the less they can go find out what they are happy doing and how they want to do it. Control, coercion, surveillance and manipulation tend to choke out the beauty of life.
malux85 6y ago
I’m similar to you - autodidact, poor in school, successful later - and I think it depends how the A.I. is implemented. My observation of school was that the ratio of 1 teacher to 25 students (who all have different learning speeds) means that the teacher is optimally teaching only a fraction of the kids, the rest at each side are overwhelmed or bored. If the AI is able to help the slower students and stimulate the brighter ones, then I think that would have taken away a lot of the boredom for me and made it a much better experience
- javajosh 6y ago
  >the ratio of 1 teacher to 25 As an aside, I've often wondered if it's not class size that's the issue, but conflicting ability and personality types. Things like the GATE program grouped high ability kids, but personality matters and it would be interesting to match students together and with a compatible teacher. Of course, this might fail spectacularly as one of the benefits of diversity is getting other perspectives, and learning empathy. But I think it would be an interesting experiment, especially in a class like math.
- plafl 6y ago
  Class size impacts at all levels up to college. I think teachers will be the first to acknowledge that they enjoy classes with a a dozen or less students.
rjsw 6y ago
I had good teachers who just let me sit at the back of the class and work at my own pace, they would mark any work that I handed in.
srnvs123 6y ago
Same feeling here. My gpa in college was absolutely abysmal, but I've since sold a startup, and working on deep tech right now. School really measures nothing but how good you are at adhering to protocol.

bradleykingz 6y ago

I have the exact same feeling. I'm not sure how well these will work, but if the person isn't comfortable, it only leads to mental health issues later on on life. School is tough enough to begin with. I can't imagine how much more difficult and stressful it will be for these kids.

admiral33 6y ago
Obviously in this case the mental health of these students is tragically coming in second place. Beyond that it's also naive. I can't think of a faster way to destroy a work force's future variance in creativity than by having them all optimized for an opaque algorithm. Many of the world's most accomplished found their genius through events and choices that cannot be optimized for. Heart break, substance abuse, loss - to name a few.

blackrock 6y ago

What did you succeed in?

matthewfelgate 6y ago

Ah projecting YOUR experience onto everyone else. How absolutely selfish.

brobdingnagians 6y ago

Totally agree; I left high school early (no diploma) so that I could go to college. In high school I hated it, didn't do my homework, got poor grades, hated my math classes, and was generally inattentive; but I loved college, breezed through most classes, and discovered that I loved mathematics, so I majored in it, and now I've started a successful company. My experience is different than most peoples', but the key thing is that people have a _choice_ and can find out what works for them. The more we try to fit people into algorithms, and top-down control, the less they can go find out what they are happy doing and how they want to do it. Control, coercion, surveillance and manipulation tend to choke out the beauty of life.

malux85 6y ago

I’m similar to you - autodidact, poor in school, successful later - and I think it depends how the A.I. is implemented. My observation of school was that the ratio of 1 teacher to 25 students (who all have different learning speeds) means that the teacher is optimally teaching only a fraction of the kids, the rest at each side are overwhelmed or bored. If the AI is able to help the slower students and stimulate the brighter ones, then I think that would have taken away a lot of the boredom for me and made it a much better experience

javajosh 6y ago
>the ratio of 1 teacher to 25 As an aside, I've often wondered if it's not class size that's the issue, but conflicting ability and personality types. Things like the GATE program grouped high ability kids, but personality matters and it would be interesting to match students together and with a compatible teacher. Of course, this might fail spectacularly as one of the benefits of diversity is getting other perspectives, and learning empathy. But I think it would be an interesting experiment, especially in a class like math.
plafl 6y ago
Class size impacts at all levels up to college. I think teachers will be the first to acknowledge that they enjoy classes with a a dozen or less students.

rjsw 6y ago

I had good teachers who just let me sit at the back of the class and work at my own pace, they would mark any work that I handed in.

srnvs123 6y ago

Same feeling here. My gpa in college was absolutely abysmal, but I've since sold a startup, and working on deep tech right now. School really measures nothing but how good you are at adhering to protocol.