A Soon-to-Be Father Asks What to Teach His Son in the Age of AGI
What shall I teach my son?
Steve Krouse, a programmer expecting his first child, confronts a question his own profession can't answer: what is education for now that AI can do the work? Drawing on Neil Postman's The End of Education, he notes that schools have outlived radio, film, and the internet, and that Thomas Edison wrongly predicted books would vanish by 1913. His conclusion: invite children to help define the purpose of their own education.
We typically confuse why something claims it exists, ie to glorify God, vs the forces that actually perpetuate it, which are subtler, we'd prefer not spoken aloud, and more prosaic, ie endowments, prestige, and needing someone to watch one's kids.