Schools spent 50 years training executors. AI just made that model obsolete.
The worst part? We knew it. We still cut maths from the core curriculum. We sidelined philosophy. We rewarded those who followed instructions rather than those who challenged them.
The result: entire generations trained to do exactly what algorithms do today… better, faster, no coffee break needed.
What cannot be replaced is critical thinking. Doubt. Intuition built through experience. The very skills the World Economic Forum now ranks at the top of recruiters’ priorities worldwide.
The same ones we made optional.
In this second part, we dig into the paradox: at the exact moment when thinking becomes our only competitive edge over machines, we gutted the disciplines that taught us how to do it.
The full article is linked below. It stings a little. That was the point.
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