Let me clarify that I think computers would help the most with explaining concepts in an engaging, pedagogical and interactive way. Having a personal tutor that

Let me clarify that I think computers would help the most with explaining concepts in an engaging, pedagogical and interactive way. Having a personal tutor that helps you with your homework and example problems is much further into the future. But my biggest problem in school was not that I didn't get help to solve problems and do homework, it's that the teachers often didn't explain high-level concepts in a way that made it click for me. It's the one-to-many teaching that is especially bad today if you get a teacher that either can't explain well, or just doesn't understand the subject deeply enough to explain it well. Edit: As an example, listen to Feynman talk about anything and everything, and compare that with your average or below average college lecturer. The difference in your understanding is immense. A good teacher helps you build a mental model of the world and gets you excited about it. A bad teacher just regurgitates what the course material says with no real engagement. I wish I could have had Feynman-level lectures on everything from the start, it would have saved me years.