Traditional school education's role in the AI age?
Given how crazy AI has gotten, is school or education still necessary?
Like, seriously—you can even build a website with some prompts. Stuff we used to spend weeks learning, AI can do in seconds.
So, what’s the point of going through years of school when you can just ask a machine for the answer?
And yeah, it’s tempting to feel like studying is kind of pointless now. Like why sit through boring lectures or cram for tests when you’ve got this super-smart assistant in your pocket?
But here’s the weird thing. The people I see actually doing things—building stuff, running projects, sticking through challenges—they’ve got something else. Not just knowledge, but this weird strength. They can focus. They can finish. They don’t quit the second things get hard.
And maybe that’s what school was really for.
Not to fill your brain with facts. But to build those muscles you don’t see—patience, grit, attention, problem-solving.
AI can do a lot. It can think. But it can’t care. It won’t push through a rough day for you. It won’t keep going when you’re tired or scared or stuck. That’s still on you.
So yeah, I don’t know if school will stay the same. Probably not. But I think the process still matters. Showing up, learning how to struggle, learning how to learn. Maybe that’s more important now—not less.
Just some thoughts. Still figuring it out.
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We are definitely living in the era of AI and it is definitely shaping a whole lot of positive things around
These things are really important and maybe not valued as much in todays school system.
There is a lot we can say about the school system today, we dont prepare our kids for anything and just hope they figure out stuff by themself when they turn 18.
Great to see some consensus here.
I still think that no matter how creative and fast AI is , it still needs humans to think of an appropriate prompt to give it before you can get the result you want, so humans are still needed it's just that we have to learn in a different way and method in order to meet up with the revolutions
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We are in the era of AI and it looks like any school that is not incorporating it in their system is missing out greatly
"patience, grit, attention, problem-solving"
Totally!
But then you are talking to a high school dropout. I did get m high school diploma when I was about 20 but after missing almost 4 years of high school it was extremely tough.
Yeah, it's easier to take the bait of getting out of doing the work, but when it comes down to it, and you don't have a device at your fingertips, what are you worth and what are your values?
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