A soon-to-be father asks what to teach kids in the AGI era
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On October 21, 2026, a Hacker News front-page post carried a soon-to-be father's thoughts on what education is for in the AGI era. Drawing on Neil Postman's The End of Education, the programmer asks what to teach a child when well-paid skills like programming lose value to AI. The post recalls Thomas Edison's 1913 prediction that books would be obsolete within a decade, and the author's own 2013 misjudgment that MOOCs would upend education. Schools persist, he notes, through more worldly forces such as prestige and donations. His conclusion: parents and children should decide the purpose of education together, not have it handed down by parents alone.
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- Hacker News front pageWhat Shall I Teach My Son?
一位即将成为父亲的程序员在 Neil Postman《教育的终结》中寻找答案：当编程等经济价值高的技能因 AI 贬值，教育的目的该是什么。文章回顾了爱迪生 1913 年预言书本十年内被淘汰、以及作者 2013 年误判 MOOCs 将颠覆教育的往事，指出学校凭借声望、捐赠等更世俗的力量长期存续。作者主张与孩子共同商定教育的目的，而非单向灌输。
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