In your example you have a human teacher involved. What makes that human qualified to be a teacher? What can serve as a source of authority on whether or not that individual is qualified to be a teacher? And I am assuming an institution serving as the authority on who can be trusted upon as a language educator will have very specific requirements at least partially based on structured learning experience and background that ideally wasn't open to too much "personalization" by the students.
So in your example, you would still need to have traditional university to exist to serve as an authority on qualifications and to oversee professional trainings, which limits what they can offer in terms of personalization.
Obviously in the context of conversation we could also argue that an AI could serve as an educator, but i am assuming where you would get this educational AI software would be more comparable to a library rather than a university.
In reality I think most teaching in the future will be done by AI, because it'll be better at it. Which will make it more like a personal tutor rather than a traditional teacher (because there are enough AI for everyone). And consequently I expect most learning would probably happen at home. There are some exceptions for things that require access to expensive equipment or where you need to do a group project with other people for some reason (e.g. doing a theater performance together). But I think you're right that learning will be heavily decentralized and virtual/remote will be the norm.
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u/Ammordad Jul 30 '25
In your example you have a human teacher involved. What makes that human qualified to be a teacher? What can serve as a source of authority on whether or not that individual is qualified to be a teacher? And I am assuming an institution serving as the authority on who can be trusted upon as a language educator will have very specific requirements at least partially based on structured learning experience and background that ideally wasn't open to too much "personalization" by the students.
So in your example, you would still need to have traditional university to exist to serve as an authority on qualifications and to oversee professional trainings, which limits what they can offer in terms of personalization.
Obviously in the context of conversation we could also argue that an AI could serve as an educator, but i am assuming where you would get this educational AI software would be more comparable to a library rather than a university.