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Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Students (2019) [video]

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as an autodidac that did extremely poorly in school, but flourished when people FINALLY left me alone and let me concentrate on what I am interested in: I could not imagine what kind of hell this would be. For a lot of the population School sucks and is a waste of time.

I’m similar to you - autodidact, poor in school, successful later - and I think it depends how the A.I. is implemented. My observation of school was that the ratio of 1 teacher to 25 students (who all have different learning speeds) means that the teacher is optimally teaching only a fraction of the kids, the rest at each side are overwhelmed or bored. If the AI is able to help the slower students and stimulate the b…

Class size impacts at all levels up to college. I think teachers will be the first to acknowledge that they enjoy classes with a a dozen or less students.

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In addition to grades, these headband readings add additional pressure to kids. Forcing kids to improve their grades at the cost of their mental health is unacceptable.

> Forcing kids to improve their grades at the cost of their mental health This sounds like the status quo of many educational systems worldwide. It's very depressing to me. Obviously some countries are worse than others, but even the US isn't great compared to say, Nordic countries.

This.

It's easier to criticise other countries' education systems, but for some reason we try to avoid criticising our own.

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