Is This Really Education?
A short piece about school, attention, outdated systems, and why AI literacy should matter.
Right now, I am sitting in a physics class.
The teacher has been talking for more than forty minutes, but none of the students, including me, seem to care about what he is saying.
None of us wants to be in this class, and we are clearly not interested. Yet somehow, we have all been placed here, either by our parents or by society.
I do not think this is only happening in Japan. I think it is happening in many countries.
The education system feels broken and outdated.
The other day I saw a student at our school who did not even know how to use ChatGPT. That surprised me, not because everyone should love AI, but because tools like this are already changing how people learn, work, and communicate.
Sometimes I wonder what school would feel like if we taught coding, content creation, AI, communication, and real-world problem solving with the same seriousness as memorization.
So the real question is simple:
How long will education continue like this?