Robo-Teacher? No Thanks

Do you believe computers will be able to replace teachers some day? many people do believe so. "We live in a technological age, it is only a matter of time until machines will take over human jobs in every life domain" says professor Arik Daniel of the Technology Studies University of Tel-Aviv, "It is inevitable and honestly, mankind looks forward for the chance to enslave machines to pamper up the western world."

Unfortunately, I do believe computers will be able to replace teachers, if not already. I prefer human being as a teacher rather than a machine because no matter how advanced a computer may be and how well it can teach, it could never dialogue with students the way teachers do. Teachers show emotions and that is the difference between people and machines. If the only reason for students to go to school is to become smarter, than school shouldn't exist and the kids should learn by themselves. I believe school's main purpose is to develop morals and to teach the students how to stand for their principles and for their beliefs.

Moreover, if robots are to teach humans instead of teachers, we can only expect them to teach the way they are planned and nothing beyond that, meaning they will teach students to think like machines, the way they are programmed. Any society that will accept such a teaching program will condemn itself to become a cold hearted machine-like society, in which the citizens will concentrate on climbing up the socio-economic ladder regarding the option of hurting others while doing so.

To conclude, I think that replacing teachers with computers is the fulfillment of mankind's suicidal instinct and if we do so, the differences between us and machines will be erased. From now on, listening to me is up to you, but if you choose not to, don't say nobody warned you.

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Daphna