Schools are not for learning.
School can be seen as an abusive and inefficient system that has little to nothing to do with "education".
Children are forced to wake up at a certain hour, every day, 5 days a week, for 12 years. They are categorized by ages and their "knowledge" level. School creates a competition between the kids, makes then hate science and learning in general, it is a boring and colorless place for these young minds, and overall ends up not teaching children much at all about the world we live in.In a trade-based society the parents NEED to trade themselves in a job, so these kids need to be "livestocked" somehow. That's what school is, a place where kids can be while their parents trade to survive in this society. More to that, Universities almost exclusively prepare these young creatures to become workers, like their parents.
All in all, kids go to school to compete, memorize, get ready to be workers. NOT to be EDUCATED.
If humans could have a decent life without trading in this society, they could have the time to engage with their kids, discover, learn, enjoy. And schools could be places where kids of all ages can go because they want to. A place where experts can teach them about the world and how to do something productive.
EXAMPLES:
Tell kids: See this red dot? This is the farthest thing we can take a photo off. They call it a "star". And you show them a real photo taken by the WEBB telescope. From there on you and your class of kids will investigate what this red dot is, and in the process you'll teach kids about light, physics, maths, distances, stars, the universe.
Or show kids a real dinosaur bone and tell them: Our mission is to understand how old it is and what creature this is. And thus you can go into a journey of discovering what geology is, paleontology, rocks and fossils, and so forth.
Or tell them that our mission is to build a robot. And they will learn mechanics, programming and so forth.
We could create real schools where kids can become curious and learn so much about our world. So that they can become the next Einsteins, the next Teslas, the next ones who can discover new things.
That's the world we should have had by now....
And we wont be able to have it unless we change the trade-based society into a tradeless society. Where humans are not forced to trade in order to survive. Where humans like "teachers" can engage and develop such schools as explained above, to have time for that, not to go to school because that's their job since they have to pay their rent so they are forced to do it.
A few years ago we made a video: Rethinking Education videos.trom.tf/w/2y5RSgvREzT6m… - where we go in depth abotút this.
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in reply to Tio • • •I was actually very excited about AIs at first, but after trying it out myself I realized that its not exactly what people make it out to be. And I couldn't put my finger on it at first, but then I found this reddit post that explained it quite well - reddit.com/r/Futurology/commen…
Comparing AI to parrot is a very good analogy, because that's what an AI does, it tries to mimic human behaviors like chatting, drawing, etc without actually having a proper "understanding" of what its doing.
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in reply to Rokosun • • •For example I asked an AI chatbot to recommend me some songs and it did, then I asked it to give me youtube links to those songs. And everything looked fine, until I actually clicked on those links. Clicking on those youtube links either sent me to a different youtube video or in most cases YouTube said the video was unavailable. So that's when I got it that the AI was trying to "mimic" the YouTube links, and TBF it does a pretty good job at that, but that's all there is to it.
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in reply to Rokosun • • •So does this mean AI is totally useless? not really, but I'd definitely warn people against using AIs for learning "new things" that you don't already know, 'cause it can mislead you by giving wrong info. Like the post I linked above says, an AI is like a parrot, and I don't think most people would wanna learn from a parrot regardless of how good it is at mimicking an intelligent-looking conversion. AI can be used to assist you with things you already know how to do.
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