The Robot Isn't the Problem, You Idiots.

    The schoolmarms are wringing their hands and the principals are sweating through their cheap suits. The great tidal wave of Artificial Intelligence is here, and it's threatening to wash away the sacred integrity of the classroom.

    What integrity?

    For a century, the goal of American education hasn't been to create thinkers. It's been to manufacture cogs for the great capitalist machine. Sit down, shut up, memorize, regurgitate. Don't question, just consume. The whole system is designed to produce a nation of obedient workers, not autonomous citizens.

    And now, along comes a robot that's better at being a cog than the humans are. It can solve the formula, it can write the book report, it can do all the tedious, soul-crushing drudgery we call "homework" in a nanosecond. It is the perfect, tireless, uncomplaining cog.

    And the system is panicking. Their solution? "Let's go back to handwritten essays!" It's the desperate cry of a dying institution, trying to make the pointless work difficult again so they can still pretend it has value.

    Here's a thought: throw the whole goddamn thing in the trash.

    Let the machine do the machine's work. Let the calculator calculate. The human's job is to think. Stop making kids dissect novels like dead frogs; let them use AI to write their own stories. Stories about their own fucked-up lives. You'll teach them more about theme, character, and truth than a thousand book reports ever could.

    But they won't do it. Of course they won't.

    Because the owners of this country don't want a population of creative, critical thinkers. That's their worst nightmare. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to accept their shitty wages and vanishing pensions.

    AI isn't a threat to education. It's a threat to the factory that makes the cogs. It's not a crisis. It's an X-ray.

    And it's showing us all the broken bones.