The purpose of education is not to make a student dependent on answers. It is to make the student capable of finding answers. Artificial intelligence has changed one of the oldest assumptions in education: that information is scarce and that the teacher's primary job is to deliver it. Today, a student can obtain an explanation, a worked solution, a summary or even a complete essay in seconds. The important question is therefore no longer simply, “Can the student get the answe

Why a difficult question should make a student think—not make a student feel stupid Have you ever been asked a question in class, an interview or an examination and suddenly felt completely useless? You may have known the subject reasonably well. You may even have solved much harder problems before. Yet, in that particular moment, your mind simply stopped working. That does not necessarily mean you don't know the answer. Sometimes the way a question is asked can interfere wit