Students are increasingly shielded from discomfort, failure and responsibility. They’re entering adulthood anxious, incredibly risk-averse and ill-prepared to face life’s inevitable challenges. The downstream effects: students who fear failure, lack initiative, and turn to adults to manage even minor problems. Professors report students calling parents to negotiate grades. Employers describe young hires who can’t make independent decisions without excessive guidance. The ability to cope with and endure discomfort, once considered a basic developmental milestone, is rapidly eroding. Now, another force threatens to accelerate this trend: AI. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into classrooms and everyday life, students may feel even less inclined to engage in creative thinking or struggle through complex problems. Why wrestle with a blank page when an AI tool can write the essay? Why brainstorm ideas when algorithms can generate solutions in seconds? Let students fail. Let them struggle. Let them grow.
AI, like a hovering parent, protects students from the failures they need; LA Times; 16-Jul-26; https://tinyurl.com/bdpwau4m
Education is at the base of so many of our problems and challenges..or the LACK THERE OF... To check the ability of our students to research, interpret, and understand the world..and all it's aspects, become increasingly short sighted. I agree with your statements...and you can check out most people on the streets for their knowledge of ANY subject...including knowledge of our country and its Constitution. I find, I am, at my "age" ( 83), learning so much more that either I missed in school or just I did not learn and I read A LOT!! I read just about everything I can get my hands on..It has been my education through life...and yet...I STILL DON'T KNOW BEANS...So...somehow, for the sake of our country...and the world we need to better education for ALL people and that includes all the drop outs..NO one should have to drop out!!! Damn it!!! All kids need a variety and there are certain areas that should help all interests. In talking with a person who was a socialogist, several years ago, he made a statement that has stuck with me. He said that there are at least six or seven types of students and the type that most teachers care about are type "A", ( B, C D E and F being various personality traits that either don't fit a proscribed type that can be taught a certain way.. those are the types that learn "differently" than the easiest which is type "A") ..I was rotten in school and even though I was a heavy reader even then I found that I just couldn't grasp certain ideas...even though I "tested " very well on the so called "IQ" tests. I wasn't lazy...I loved to learn, but not their way.."ADHD" was not a subject of discussion then. I dropped out of college...I almost dropped out of high school. SO after this long discourse I just think we need better ways to approach schooling for all kids!! My parents never understood why I did so badly...and now, like you say...so many more challenges, distractions and AI...YIKES Thank you for reading!! Any errors are my lack of attention span...LOL!!
I kind of like the idea that human waste management systems are managed based on the number of people pooping rather than on the number of citizens pooping.
Imagine a handful of AI firms possess more: computing than governments; data than nations; influence than traditional institutions; The future has arrived. Dominance: The US-research; China-deployment. Europe-governance. And the actual winners may be companies, not countries. https://tinyurl.com/mr462h74
On the brighter side; we'll almost certainly have a democrat as president in '30, as well as a majority in the House and possibly the senate. Having the power means we can kill this initiative of cheating, as well as a lot of other things of fascist origins! Also, disenfranchising all immigrants would make for fewer representatives in places like Texas, Florida, and Arizona, which would hurt the GOP, unless they somehow plan to skip over those districts...
Please excuse my ignorance and maybe refer me to more information as I am confused by why persons who are “here temporarily” students, no green card, illegal immigrants should be counted in census as in my opinion not have voting rights so why would redistricting matter if representation is not a right
So shady and the administration knows it. But what I don’t get is that it will also hurt red states. I feel like they are such egomaniacs that they don’t care.
I am sure that Goebbels in his tomb is Jealous of the ingenuity of the racism displayed in this intricate ruling…
It never stops
Thanks for making this available to non-paying Bulwark subscribers. It's too important to keep behind the paywall.
Students are increasingly shielded from discomfort, failure and responsibility. They’re entering adulthood anxious, incredibly risk-averse and ill-prepared to face life’s inevitable challenges. The downstream effects: students who fear failure, lack initiative, and turn to adults to manage even minor problems. Professors report students calling parents to negotiate grades. Employers describe young hires who can’t make independent decisions without excessive guidance. The ability to cope with and endure discomfort, once considered a basic developmental milestone, is rapidly eroding. Now, another force threatens to accelerate this trend: AI. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into classrooms and everyday life, students may feel even less inclined to engage in creative thinking or struggle through complex problems. Why wrestle with a blank page when an AI tool can write the essay? Why brainstorm ideas when algorithms can generate solutions in seconds? Let students fail. Let them struggle. Let them grow.
AI, like a hovering parent, protects students from the failures they need; LA Times; 16-Jul-26; https://tinyurl.com/bdpwau4m
Education is at the base of so many of our problems and challenges..or the LACK THERE OF... To check the ability of our students to research, interpret, and understand the world..and all it's aspects, become increasingly short sighted. I agree with your statements...and you can check out most people on the streets for their knowledge of ANY subject...including knowledge of our country and its Constitution. I find, I am, at my "age" ( 83), learning so much more that either I missed in school or just I did not learn and I read A LOT!! I read just about everything I can get my hands on..It has been my education through life...and yet...I STILL DON'T KNOW BEANS...So...somehow, for the sake of our country...and the world we need to better education for ALL people and that includes all the drop outs..NO one should have to drop out!!! Damn it!!! All kids need a variety and there are certain areas that should help all interests. In talking with a person who was a socialogist, several years ago, he made a statement that has stuck with me. He said that there are at least six or seven types of students and the type that most teachers care about are type "A", ( B, C D E and F being various personality traits that either don't fit a proscribed type that can be taught a certain way.. those are the types that learn "differently" than the easiest which is type "A") ..I was rotten in school and even though I was a heavy reader even then I found that I just couldn't grasp certain ideas...even though I "tested " very well on the so called "IQ" tests. I wasn't lazy...I loved to learn, but not their way.."ADHD" was not a subject of discussion then. I dropped out of college...I almost dropped out of high school. SO after this long discourse I just think we need better ways to approach schooling for all kids!! My parents never understood why I did so badly...and now, like you say...so many more challenges, distractions and AI...YIKES Thank you for reading!! Any errors are my lack of attention span...LOL!!
I kind of like the idea that human waste management systems are managed based on the number of people pooping rather than on the number of citizens pooping.
Imagine a handful of AI firms possess more: computing than governments; data than nations; influence than traditional institutions; The future has arrived. Dominance: The US-research; China-deployment. Europe-governance. And the actual winners may be companies, not countries. https://tinyurl.com/mr462h74
On the brighter side; we'll almost certainly have a democrat as president in '30, as well as a majority in the House and possibly the senate. Having the power means we can kill this initiative of cheating, as well as a lot of other things of fascist origins! Also, disenfranchising all immigrants would make for fewer representatives in places like Texas, Florida, and Arizona, which would hurt the GOP, unless they somehow plan to skip over those districts...
I despise this regime. He's never going to leave the office
Him Stephen Miller Russell Voight are rigging themselves straight to Hell!!!
Can we please have a name for folks who love @Catherine Rampell ’s work?
Nerds of the Rampell Realm, maybe?
Please excuse my ignorance and maybe refer me to more information as I am confused by why persons who are “here temporarily” students, no green card, illegal immigrants should be counted in census as in my opinion not have voting rights so why would redistricting matter if representation is not a right
The US Census only requires a count. You don't have to answer any of the other bullshit questions.
So, us Rez born get excluded, because the clause excused Natives, specifically, plus we were born on what are actually soveriegn nations.
Is that the next card in the deck? Or do they have 5 more dueces and jokers left to play?
When are we gonna get back to the One Drop Theory where your raped great-great granma had a half white child?
Is geneology and race theory gonna take down what strife and struggle has taken so long to build?
So shady and the administration knows it. But what I don’t get is that it will also hurt red states. I feel like they are such egomaniacs that they don’t care.
Disappointing to see that you are platforming the Bulwark BTC
What about dual citizens who live outside of the US (and have to pay taxes to the US where they do not reside?)