Comment Re:Technology is not a panacea for education's ill (Score 2) 234
I absolutely agree.
Let’s remember that all those figures in history (both recent and remote) whom we admire were educated the old way: by one-on-one contact between educators and children. Tech industry’s drive to replace that quintessentially human bond with mechanistic devices strikes me as fundamentally misguided.
Wanting better technology is fine. However the best technology for dealing with people (particularly kids) is still other people.
It seems like we’re on the verge of institutionalising autism.