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Students Are Learning Less and Getting Higher Grades Because of AI, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hmm, depending on whose opinion you listen to, education systems have always been built around workforce productivity:

RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

"... the current system was structured for a different age. It was conceived in the intellectual culture of the enlightenment, and in the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution
[...]
it was driven by an economic imperative of the time
[...]
we have a system of education that is modeled on the interests of industrialism, and in the image of it."

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can argue that primary and secondary school was about workforce productivity, but college was designed for leadership training.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well... the first colleges were established to train clergy, because reading and writing were rare skills at the time, and there was a demand for trained clergy who worked as clerks, accountants and record keepers for nobles who could not themselves read or write, which I think just circles back to the workforce productivity thing.

This is also true for Confucian schools in China. The students were not clergy in the religious sense, but they learned reading, writing and tradition in order to become useful administrators for local rulers.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Colleges haven't been training people how to read for centuries; it has been assumed that people entering college could read and write with a pen for a long time and college shifted with it.

And the collegiate system wasn't based on Confucian teaching styles.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 1 points 2 weeks ago

Colleges haven't been training people how to read for centuries;

Yes but that is exactly the timeframe the person you replied to is discussing.

It has been quite a while since nobles were generally illiterate and needed clergy to read and write for them...centuries in fact