AI Era Education The Subjects Schools Don't Teach… But what the Future Demands in this AI era: Students should Learn to understand about themselves, society, nature, intelligence, and the future. Imagine graduating with perfect examination scores, but without understanding how your brain works, how artificial intelligence makes decisions, how money grows, why people disagree, how your genes respond to the environment, or how the natural world sustains life. Students may know mathematics, science, history, and languages (can use AI tools to get the information), but the main question is do the student know how to manage your emotions, recognize misinformation, overcome procrastination, understand financial risks, collaborate with intelligent machines, or make decisions that protect the planet? ...
Twenty years after the glory days of the Green Revolution, the yield from Subhash Sharma’s farm plummeted, even as input costs increased. He switched to organic farming as a last-ditch effort. Thirteen years on, his farm in Yavatmal is flourishing, and has become a model for hundreds of other farmers . “You can’t hold on to business and still do farming. The two things are enemies of each other. Agriculture is nature; it demands that you give it your all. Then alone will it be bounteous to you. If you have an eye on business, land will never give you anything because you will be robbing the land.” When Subhash Sharma talks like this you know he is not merely spouting poetry. Because the month is June, when sowing in Maharashtra’s ‘suicide-prone’ Yavatmal district has just begun, and he is standing against a backdrop of lush, healthy crops of pumpkin, chauli beans and tall, delicious-looking corn at his farm in Dorli village. The crops, as Sharma points out with justifiable pride, were ...