Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

by Garry Kasparov

Wealthy nations approach education in the same way a wealthy aristocratic family approaches investing. The status quo has been good for a long time; why rock the boat? I’ve spoken at many education conferences in the past few years, from Paris to Jerusalem to New York, and I’ve never seen such a conservative mindset in any other sector. Not only the administrators and bureaucrats, but the teachers and parents as well. Everyone except for the kids. The prevailing attitude is that education is too important to take risks. My response is that education is too important not to take risks. We need to find out what works and the only way to do that is to experiment. The kids can handle it. They are already doing it on their own. It’s the adults who are afraid.