The Pedagogy of Obsolescence: While China Models the Future in Classrooms, the West Keeps Debating the Inkwell

The Pedagogy of Obsolescence: While China Models the Future in Classrooms, the West Keeps Debating the Inkwell

There is a self-imposed blindness, almost endearing in its pathos, with which Western bureaucracies insist on viewing the development of the rest of the planet. While in our latitudes ministries of education and arm-chair pedagogical committees waste rivers of ink and sterile seminars deliberating whether artificial intelligence should be banned, regulated, or blessed before entering a classroom, on the other side of the Pacific the discussion i…