A University of Texas professor says AI didn't break college — it revealed how broken teaching was.
Steven Mintz said that mass lectures and formulaic essays dehumanized education long before AI.
He said that schools must automate rote learning so humans can focus on thinking and mentorship.
When Steven Mintz, a history professor at the University of Texas at Austin, opened 400 essays from his students, he noticed something uncanny. The sentences were the same. The structure was the same. Even the conclusions matched.
In a LinkedIn post, Mintz said this wasn't a cheating crisis but a pedag
Steven Mintz said that mass lectures and formulaic essays dehumanized education long before AI.
He said that schools must automate rote learning so humans can focus on thinking and mentorship.
When Steven Mintz, a history professor at the University of Texas at Austin, opened 400 essays from his students, he noticed something uncanny. The sentences were the same. The structure was the same. Even the conclusions matched.
In a LinkedIn post, Mintz said this wasn't a cheating crisis but a pedag
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