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 ...