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6 Failed Predictions About 21st Century Schools
All Information Will Be Fed Directly into Students’ Minds Via a Wood Chipper: Envisioned in 1910—before the advent of computers when the future was still seen as hand-cranked and involving pantaloons—students in the 21st century would receive all their education via headsets attached to a converted wood chipper that was constantly fed textbooks.
Automated Beatings: Teachers will no longer be present in the classroom in the 21st century thanks to either a strong union or the belief that kids will eventually be fed into the future war machine anyway so why bother getting too attached to them.
Robots, Robots, and More Robots: The dream of robot teachers was a common and oft-told one, no doubt perpetuated by school administrations who no longer wanted to pay human teachers their “whopping” 25K salaries.
Push-Button Classrooms: Just like robot teachers, people have long predicted a “push button” technologically advanced classroom. And some may say we have achieved that, thanks to laptops, tablets, and all those preschool activity tables that let little kids repeatedly punch buttons to make every loud sound possible until the nursery school teacher is shotgunning Franzia boxed wine in class.
Sky Schools: There comes a time in the career of a professional “future expert” when they’ve made all the probable predictions they can (“2020: Middle school will still be the deepest pit of hell”) and so hop on the crazy train to make all kinds of outlandish guesses.
All Students Will Submit to Atari: All education services would fall to the mighty Atari (perhaps with extracurricular use of the “E.T: The Extraterrestrial” 2600 video game cartridge), presumably after a lengthy battle with Intellivision and Colecovision for scholastic domination.
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