Re: [MTC Global] The Death of the Teacher -- by Roy Andersen

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On Sunday, 1 January 2017 8:21 PM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:

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The Death of the Teacher -- by Roy Andersen

With education facing a disturbing loss of teachers due to dissatisfaction and retirement at a time when child population is increasing, it is inevitable that school will increase student learning through computers -- with the reasoning they learn better this way. They do not! As we saw in "The Illusion of Education," software learning only improves the type of reasoning the student has developed. It does not broaden their ability to reason. Without this, their social development is hindered. In effect, this means that the student's level of intelligence will be roughly maintained. This causes us to reflect upon the ability of the adult in society to reason, when as a child in the classroom they will not be taught to develop through skills of peer reasoning, but individually upon set programming levels. This leads us to ask ourselves, "What type of people will children become when they are raised at home on television entertainment and computer games, and in school upon software programs, where in both environments they see human skills as of secondary importance? As our world falls more under the influence of computers, it is not the intelligence of the citizen that will be of concern to the operational efficiency of societies, because artificial intelligence will take over this competence, but the training for and the awareness of high individual social responsibility. It is for this reason that students need to learn through human guidance.

It is imperative that those in government seriously improve the conditions of teachers to cause more people to want to become teachers and those in the job to want to stay in it. I meet a disturbing number of educationalists at all levels who tell me: "I'm getting out. I've had enough." This is a desperate situation that is being handled appallingly with no insight into how we are failing the child of today and the citizen of tomorrow.--

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