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It's because humans naturally want to avoid unpleasant work, and public schools teach us that learning is hard and work for some reason, rather than something fun. For instance, I used to read for fun an unbelievable amount, but then I was forced to do book reports with a required list of books to "prove" I was reading them, and it was just absolutely no fun at all. Why not have a discussion about it and the teacher can check the spark notes? This changes at community college back to learning is fun, but just years of being told to do busywork and be a drone kills learning for a lot of people I feel.
It's the natural result of how our society treats education. The end result is more valued than the process. Getting an A is more important than learning the material. When we tell kids that they need good grades to get into a good college to have a good life, education becomes a means to an end, an obstacle to be circumvented.
I didn't enjoy learning until I got out of the public education system. If I had chatgpt in high school I would have 100% used it because high school was just the place to prove I deserved to go to college. It wasn't a place of learning, everyone treated it as the crucible to access a better life instead of a place to figure out what you love.
AI will continue to be a problem the same way cheating will continue to be a problem. They have the same solution: we need to place more value on the learning process than the end results.
This answer speaks to me. I used to read nonstop when I was a child. Fiction, non-fiction, didn't matter. I loved it.
After college, it took me a good 5-6 years to start reading for fun again, and it's never quite been the same.
Kinda same. One time in primary school when I got a book from the school's library, I had to walk about 10 minutes to get to the bus station after classes, and I remember being disappointed that this meant I couldn't continue the book for those 10 minutes. I also had a children's encyclopedia back then with all sorts of topics from astronomy to history to technology, that I read several times.
Granted, I was never necessarily all in on reading. I would be split between that and gaming or TV as well. But compare that to today, after school managed to kill reading for me, and now I don't really read, and just play games or watch anime instead.
I would have probably really liked Coraline if I could have read it myself instead of through a curriculum. They should really just let the kids who read anyways just do their own thing. It's gotta be a lot more personalized than whatever is currently going on
I decided to read it just recently because I was curious after seeing the movie, and I can in fact say it's pretty good!
It does. Probably even more so for nd people.
I was a horrible student. In middle school, I was pulled out of public school and did independent study, and while I still had to learn the required core materials, I was allowed to pick what I wanted to learn outside of that and it was so much more fun for me.