AI Could Break School's Century-Old Pace Constraint by Making Personal Tutoring Cheap
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-10-05
The author argues schools have long treated learning speed as a proxy for ability: thirty different brains learn the same thing at roughly the same pace, a structure born of scarce individual attention—one teacher can only manage so many students.
AI could make that attention far cheaper: every student gets something close to a personal tutor that remembers what they understand, catches gaps, adapts pace, and re-explains when stuck. Needing three explanations instead of one may just mean needing a different explanation—AI can separate pace from ability at scale.
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