AI didn't break education — education was measuring the wrong things all along
Yamapama · x · 2026-11-11
A widely shared take argues education has long been measuring the wrong things: students memorize information, reproduce it unaided for exams, and earn certificates as job prerequisites. When machines arrived that can instantly retrieve and apply information, we called them cheating — the problem isn't AI making education obsolete, it's what education chose to measure.
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