Is Everything We’re Teaching Garbage?
Artificial intelligence theorist and education reformer Roger Schank has argued that virtually everything we currently teach to kids is a waste of time, according to Good Education.
This provocative statement should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt. For one, Good is calling him a “reformer” which, to many teachers, is an epithet most commonly applied to people with little or no training in education who have an ulterior motive (often profit-driven). Second, being an artificial intelligence theorist makes him no better qualified to critique education than any other non-educator.
Nevertheless, he brings up several salient points. For example, he