Education as We Know It Will Never Ever Be the Same: AI Will End Us

It was just last week that, I saw a news piece from Jericho, NY, about a school that had a record 21 valedictorians. That is remarkable. It makes you sit back and wonder: are we all, all of a sudden, becoming so intelligent, sometimes even more intelligent than everyone around us?

Then you begin to realize that this is 2026, and the world is becoming as artificial as AI itself. That means intelligence, in many ways, is becoming super artificial too.

Now, this is by no means degrading the intelligence of those young people. Good Lord knows we need intelligence in our world. But what is scary is the fact that today, we are becoming more informed without necessarily becoming wiser, or even more human.

It is fair to say that we are slowly losing our common humanity.

Okay, that may sound like a lot, but AI has made it incredibly easy to access information for whatever you need, especially in education. Research that once took days in a library can now be done in minutes. Essays, explanations, tutoring, translations, calculations, and even critical analysis are now available instantly.

Those of us who went through school without such access might need to request readjustments to our grades and transcripts. 

Just imagine that.

But all jokes aside, education has changed, and it will never, ever be the same in this age of everything artificial.

The question is no longer whether students have access to information. Almost everyone does. The real question is whether we are still teaching people how to think, how to reason, how to struggle through problems, how to be creative, and how to remain human in a world increasingly driven by machines. I am afraid not. 

Artificial intelligence can give answers, but it cannot replace wisdom, character, empathy, discipline, or lived experience. Those things still have to be developed the old-fashioned way: through life, failure, relationships, sacrifice, and growth. Especially failure. Most of those young people will go through their years of formal formation without ever having to taste failure until they end up at the work place where they will have to solve some problems without AI. May not.

And maybe this new era will produce the smartest generation in history. But intelligence without wisdom can also become dangerous.

Education is no longer just about memorizing facts. It is now about learning how to navigate truth, technology, and humanity all at once.

And that changes everything. And as I read that people, I was wondering the problem solving skills of those young people. This by the way is not limited to the HS on LI, but around the nation and the world at large. With 21 intelligent boys and girls, who will give the speech? Please think about that question careful and apply it to the real world here everyone in the boardroom or the office is super qualified.

Wait until you read about the cheating that has taken place around universities in the past two years. 

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