A Disruptive Technology
Einstein had once legitimately asked his teacher, and not irrationally, as to why you burden us with dates and facts, and the likes of 'the longest river and the biggest monument'.
I'm not interested in knowing how many armies were killed in which war. Or, which army killed more than which other?
The factual and procedural knowledge (please read information) can always and way more conveniently be accessed and leveraged on the internet.
AI is a Disruptive Technology.
The disruptive technologies have been 'wheels', 'electricity' and 'cellphones' and lot more.
Stop stuffing your child with factual and procedural knowledge.
We burden our students with such useless facts at the expense of HIGH ORDER COMPETENCIES like appreciating a situation and responding to it in their own original way.
The examination agencies, schools, colleges, universities, CBSE, PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS etc MUST MUST wake up to the call.
Stop asking who won what and who didn't.
The most chewed management cliche - Selection is a negative process - needs a changeover.
A competitive examination must assess the ability of the aspirant to handle a situation and offer her own untrodden reflection with objectiveness of her perspective.
Welcome all disruptive technologies like AI and a myriad of similar things to follow.
Umesh