High school gone fully ChatGPT: teachers and students both outsourcing thinking
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-09-23
Observing his sister's high school class, one writer notes that teachers' lesson plans and students' essays are all ChatGPT-generated, and motivation to learn seems to have collapsed — systemic change looks necessary.
The argument: genuinely curious people will 10-100x their learning ability with AI, while the bottom 95% of learners will use it to skip critical thinking entirely. The quoter adds that "AI will filter agency" — the dividing line is who actually wants to learn.
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