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What if education became research? If, in the hypothetical future, the AI can answer any question about any book or scientific theory, perhaps the educational s
by danjl 1y ago
What if education became research? If, in the hypothetical future, the AI can answer any question about any book or scientific theory, perhaps the educational system could focus on teaching people how to come up with good ideas to research, and how to do that research effectively? Rather than making the questions about historical information more difficult, or answering them in person or writing them in bluebooks, make the process of learning about how to create new knowledge? Educators would become people who teach you how to learn, how to design questions, and how to research those questions to produce factual answers. We've known lectures have been the worst way to teach for decades. Why maintain that failed system? If the reductionist goal of the college system is a degree that certifies you as an expert in historical knowledge, maybe we can just throw that away since the AI can handle that part now, and instead certify that people know how to ask the right questions of the AI, and how to interpret their answers to create new knowledge for humanity?