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We pretend to teach, and students pretend to learn : Comments
By Steven Schwartz, published 15/10/2025In our brave new AI world, academics pretend to teach, students pretend to learn and administrators pretend it all adds up to something called higher education.
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Posted by Rhian, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 1:17:52 PM
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AI is here to stay, and our students need to learn how to use it. But they also need to learn. In many cases it is precisely the things that AI apparently does –identifying important information, assessing its relevance, creating a case or argument and expressing it coherently – that students need to learn how to do for themselves. These skills are not just means to an end, they are what an education is supposed to provide. And they can enrich the lives of those who acquire them in many more ways than their vocational or functional usefulness.