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Everybody can make children, so how hard can it be to educate them? /s

I totally agree with you. I think especially teachers face such know-it-alls much more than other occupations.

Not that I know it better, but thinking video games can replace human interaction is so silly. Probably all teachers knew it long before Hattie's meta study, the teacher is the key to good learning....




I also agree with you, but I think there are good reasons teachers face this more than other people. Everybody has been educated, all we have been exposed to the work of educators. All we have thousands of hours of experience of how the education system works. That does not make us capable of doing their work (and, certainly, it does not make us capable of doing their work better), but everybody has a relatively well formed opinion. On the other hand, most people do not have an opinion about how to improve programming languages, for example.


That's a really good and probably true explanation!


Yeah, but what if that teacher is not Human.

There is a lot of really short sighted thinking in this thread. AI will be better than us at everything within the next few hundred years.

It's kind of a flippant remark, and not very useful, but its true.

AI will be better than a human at making me happy, and it will be better at comforting me when I'm sad. It will be better at motivating me and it will be better at teaching me and my kids things.




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