AI Isn’t the First Tool Education Has Feared
A personal view of the British system — and why education keeps repeating the same response to every new tool
I am tackling education from a personal perspective; there is no AI Committee behind this one. I came up through the British world of O Levels and A Levels in the 1980s — secondary school, sixth form and then university. I was a STEM student, taking mathematics (pure and applied), physics, chemistry, biology and computer studies, and where the narrative allows I have drawn on my own experience.
I am also focusing on secondary education and above. Primary education should be about building the foundations on which all later learning rests, and I will leave that stage to one side.
An old worry with a new name
The current anxiety in education is not new. Each time a new cognitive tool appears — one that promises to do some of...
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