The State will tighten the leash when this gets too popular.

The Aristotle avatar still has to be programmed. Who will do so, Karl Marx or Ayn Rand?

Very interesting commentary, but there is a significant problem with the conclusion, in that it excludes one of schools' essential functions, namely learning to be a functional part of a human society. A good teacher not only imparts factual knowledge, but provides (in conjunction with the school) a model of social interaction, with its unspoken rules, its ethics, etc etc, all things no amount of Digital Aristotling will ever be able to provide. This model is not always good (see for example the "shut up and listen/follow" model, creating mindless drones incapable of critical thought), and that of course needs to be improved. But children will always need adult humans to show how one (inter)acts in society, and that cannot be done with 50-100 students to one teacher. There has to be the possibility for personal interaction.

>> ^hpqp:

Very interesting commentary, but there is a significant problem with the conclusion, in that it excludes one of schools' essential functions, namely learning to be a functional part of a human society. A good teacher not only imparts factual knowledge, but provides (in conjunction with the school) a model of social interaction, with its unspoken rules, its ethics, etc etc, all things no amount of Digital Aristotling will ever be able to provide. This model is not always good (see for example the "shut up and listen/follow" model, creating mindless drones incapable of critical thought), and that of course needs to be improved. But children will always need adult humans to show how one (inter)acts in society, and that cannot be done with 50-100 students to one teacher. There has to be the possibility for personal interaction.


School isn't the only place for those things to happen.

@gorillaman, no it isn't the only one, but an essential one among several.

>> ^hpqp:

gorillaman, no it isn't the only one, but an essential one among several.


It's not essential either. It's a good option at the moment, but it could certainly be supplanted by others in a 'digital aristotle' future.

we're quite a few decades off computers having reasonable chance of replacing humans outright re maximum effectiveness. So more a conversation for later.

But as a direction to head towards, having a scientifically proven computer model that can range between base requirements being consistent with the capability to fluctuate out towards an individual minds interests in stable/reliable ways, whereby having greater value to that specific person is a good one.