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If you structure learning in such a way that makes learning just a means to some end, and overindex on that end being the ultimate goal, that's what you get.

This is a pedagogical problem that AI merely exposed. Educators need to figure out How to make students choose the scenic route instead of having them optimize for the most efficient completion of a task.

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School has always been about creating compliant workers, not educating people. They will double down on "performing the right things" and "morals" while the economy will continue on its K shaped path as AI gets more capable.

Could it be that you vastly overgeneralize? While there's no perfect education system, many are much better than the nightmare you describe.

Yea, also the programs are too different. My psychology bachelor felt like a tea party. My computer science master was 60 hours per week during the hardest courses (which were supposed to go for 20 hours per week - so I could only do one course if it was at this level). My game design master felt more like we were dumped into an art school masquerading as a psychology/CS master but it really was art school. My information science bachelor felt like the only "normal" study program.

All of this was at university of which 3 of them were at the same university.

Especially the artsy game design program definitely did not feel like it was preparing me to be a cog in some giant corporate wheel.

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