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Steve Krouse, a programmer about to become a father, uses Neil Postman's The End of Education to ask what schooling is for once AI can do much of what he's trained to do. He concludes that education's purposes have shifted many times, and that parents might work out new ones together with their kids.
- Schools have outlasted every technology predicted to replace them, from radio and film to MOOCs, because their staying power comes from endowments, prestige, and childcare rather than their stated purpose.
- Krouse's own answer, "resourceful," looks obsolete now that AI agents use tools in a loop, and earning a living, a purpose he had leaned on, is wobbling too.
- Postman proposed new purposes such as Spaceship Earth, the American Experiment, and The World Makers, and Krouse argues the medium of teaching matters as much as its content.