Tag: <span>EDUCATION</span>

Eleven against one, bread and circuses

Eleven against one, bread and circuses

Eleven players chasing a ball get universal applause. A kid who’s brilliant at math gets side-eyes. Why does France celebrate excellence in the feet and grow suspicious of excellence in the mind?

Between a football academy running on 35,000 euros per player per year and a math olympiad program held together by volunteers, the funding gap tells you exactly what kind of society we’ve chosen to be, without anyone ever saying so out loud.

On the table: the story of a single word, “elitism”, turned into the quiet weapon of a collective surrender, and the very real price France pays for being ashamed of its brightest minds.

\#education #elitism #mathematics #France #excellence #education #society

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OPINION

EDUCATION ETHICS PARADOX

The missed appointment with mathematics …

The missed appointment with mathematics …

“Math? Absolute nightmare.”

Every mathematician hears this at dinner. And behind those words lies something far deeper than a bad school memory: a colossal misunderstanding about what mathematics actually is.

No, math is not just a collection of formulas to memorize and regurgitate on an exam. It is a way of thinking, of reasoning, of not being fooled by what seems obvious.

And no, AI does not make it obsolete. Quite the opposite.

In this article, I try to repair that missed encounter. Why has school so often handed us a distorted picture of this discipline? What is its real value, the kind that stays with you even after you’ve forgotten everything? And what does the rise of artificial intelligence tell us about our relationship with mathematics?

An invitation to see this science differently. Not as a torture device for schoolchildren, but as an adventure of the mind.

#Mathematics #Education #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #Learning #Reasoning #AI #Science #Skills

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OPINION

EDUCATION PARADOX

School was designed to produce executors. AI will replace them. (Part 3/3)

School was designed to produce executors. AI will replace them. (Part 3/3)

We spent 50 years grading memory, conformity, the ability to regurgitate. Only to discover, a little too late, that this is exactly what a machine does better than any human.

AI doesn’t threaten the people who know how to think. It replaces the ones we trained not to.

This isn’t a technology problem. It’s a pedagogical choice we’ve been pushing to tomorrow for decades.

#Education #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #CriticalThinking #Employment #Transformation

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OPINION

AI EDUCATION

School was designed to produce executors. AI will replace them. (Part 2/3)

School was designed to produce executors. AI will replace them. (Part 2/3)

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.

#Education #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #CriticalThinking #AI #Skills #Learning #Innovation

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OPINION

AI EDUCATION PARADOX

School trained executors. AI will replace them. (Part 1/3)

School trained executors. AI will replace them. (Part 1/3)

School still trains people to memorize and execute. The world, meanwhile, demands the ability to understand, connect and think.

While some spend an hour struggling through an essay, others get a perfect answer in 4 seconds thanks to artificial intelligence. This gap exposes a deep flaw in our education system.

AI, education, critical thinking, the future of work… what if we’ve spent the last 50 years preparing our children for a world that no longer exists?

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AI EDUCATION