Education in the age of AI

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A lot is going on in this era with AI taking hold of classrooms and the teacher. Thousands of meetings, discussions, conferences are going on to impress upon us the importance of AI. Why? So that our brains which were not even working 10% of its capacity, stops working altogether? So that our kids get isolated in the process and grow up without values? So that teachers are required less and money goes into the pockets of the bureaucrats? The tool, is intelligent and the human brain is behind it. If the human brain has the power to create something so powerful, imagine the capacity it can have to overpower it? What's the need of education then? It's needed to make a child feel human. That he is no less, that he can do much more than he thinks he can. That he is born of love and feeds on love to become a gift of love. Values when taught, obliterates the depression, the negativity that threads through his veins and disturb his mind. And this when taught in schools, train them to think of achieving and giving back to the society. Teachers need to be taken out of their traditional mindset and be made aware that money is not all. But what makes them think that education is burdensome? The answer is, the salary, the extra work outside their job description. For the amount of work thrust on them, in certain schools, they are paid peanuts. They cannot run to Finland or Germany like that!! They are haunted with job loss and attending umpteen number of workshops to train the students. Students learn anyway. Computers were fitted in a village at certain places to observe how they learn. They did. A ten year old understood microbiology just by clicking the keypad consistently. How then would teachers be assured of their jobs in this age of AI? They have to learn the tools that make their work less burdensome. They have to learn that a lot more can be taught with the use of AI, that lesson planning and designing teaching aids is no longer a bother. At the same time they should fall back on the ancient practices of imparting education and blend the two ways. They have to collaborate with the parents to train the kids into thinking that real education takes place when they think on the hows and the whens and the whys. They have to learn that they are here for a purpose. They have to learn the language of love. AI cannot take away their existence just like that. They have to learn that there's a difference between illusion and reality, that failures are acceptable, that not all is lost for a mistake or a failed result, that they are not meant to suffer loneliness but enjoy solitude, that they are natural beings not mechanical. That there is joy in holding a pen or a pencil, in turning the leaves of a book, in smelling the freshness of a new page, in dabbing their fingers in colored paint, in composing something of their own, in attending school, in getting a break to be with friends, in using hands for certain activities like modelling or crafts. The purpose of education is to show them the truth of themselves as divine embodiments. For this, both the parents, the teachers, the society, the government, have to work in unison.