Before MOOCs, it was TV that would revolutionize education, and before that, radio was supposed to replace the need for classes/lectures. What each of these (i

Before MOOCs, it was TV that would revolutionize education, and before that, radio was supposed to replace the need for classes/lectures. What each of these (including the latest wave of "AI" approaches) has overlooked is that humans learn from humans, because learning is only accomplished via motivation. Creating and sustaining motivation for years is not within the scope of a program you use on a computer -- it comes from a teacher who knows how to inspire, from a classroom and home environment that reinforces the importance of learning, and from peers who also care and reinforce this culture. I'll quote Kentaro Toyama: "Quality primary and secondary education is a multi-year commitment whose single bottleneck is the sustained motivation of the student to climb an intellectual Everest".