Dr. David Eagleman

You know, in any classroom, it's going too fast for half the kids and too slow for the other half of the kids.

What we now have the opportunity for is really individualized education.

One way this could be implemented is AI debate.

So you take any hot button issue, abortion, gun control, whatever you want, and you debate with the AI.

And you get graded based on the quality of your arguments.

And then you switch sides and you take the other side and you argue again.

This is the kind of thing you could never have enough teachers for.

They would never have enough patience for.

AI is terrific at this.

And by the way, it's really important so that students get a 360 view of issues instead of ideological capture.

So this is a terrific way to teach critical thinking to every student, not just the kids on the speech and debate team.

Okay, creativity, that's easy.

That has to do with learning the foundational stuff and then doing remixes, bending, breaking, blending, doing new versions of it.

And I think schools can implement this easily and without any extra expense, which is...

You have to teach the foundational stuff, but you compress that so you have one extra week at the end of each semester.

And then that last week you say, oh great, take everything you've learned and now make your own thing with it.

Using all the elements that we've learned, bend it, break it, blend it, make your own version of this.

That kind of exercise is, that is creativity.

That's all creativity is, is taking your storehouse of knowledge and doing remixes.

We should be teaching that.