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Jorge Clúni's avatar

Based on our current understanding of youths' brain and body development, could John go further in a critique of the education system itself?

The devices are obviously terribly harmful, but is the classroom itself not? Being segregated by age and constantly overseen by paternal authorities, energetic children are made to sit still and listen to an instructor in a fluorescent-light orderly indoor space where everything is prescribed, all of which completely clashes with the evolved psychology and biology of human youth (especially males).

Jack Francis's avatar

If edu-tech is so bad for kids' learning, why are companies like Alpha Schools, Alpha Anywhere, Math Academy, etc. performing so stunningly well with AI-integrated learning?

For those who are unaware, the Alpha School in Brownsville, TX, is in the 99th percentile for school ranking, with the average student scoring in the top 2 per cent for English and Math, despite being in a poor educational neighbourhood. and outsourcing most, if not all, pure academic teaching to the AI. They still have human teachers, but it's more analogous to the role of a sports coach than a teacher in traditional terms.

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