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To a point I think it should. Some aspects of the education system can be taught with a computer.

For some people they already do. The process of education is largely about teaching people how they learn and providing them with different methods for doing so. For people who figure that out somewhat more naturally, there isn't a huge need for interaction with a "teacher", a paid professional who stands before a class and instructs them on how to do something. People can instead learn from any source, any person, they interact with rather than going to a single authoritative figure.

I've seen this need for most people described as paying someone to pretend to "educate" people and telling them that they are receiving an education. This seems to me all we are really doing. For whatever reason, it seems necessary to do for most people to pay for a service that educates them rather than to do the work themselves and call it a day.

I agree that some aspects of the educational system are already provided via computer. And yes, it is definitely true that you don't need a person to learn everything – education is a largely personal matter. However, if we eliminate the teacher-student interaction completely, a part of the educational experience will be lost. It's not just the act of standing before a class that makes a teacher a teacher…there's the whole social experience of learning – the working together, bouncing ideas off of one another, etc. People are always complaining about the loss of social contact that has come with the age of technology…I could only imagine what they'd be saying if the computer became the new teacher.

Also, my high school chemistry teacher was my inspiration for becoming who I am today. I know that for many people, certain teachers inspire them to become who they become. It would be a sad thing if that was lost.

“Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.” – David Thornburg

To answer your question in a single word – - – - – No.

Why?

Way back – (Long before my time, Jared) – when Humans roamed around in bunches we moderns have named tribes, and before written language, the teachers were the tribal story tellers. These stories were passed down from one generation to the next and that is how history was born.

Dump the teacher for a computer? Hey, then who will seduce the students?(Joke, people, that was a joke)

Without Human interaction within the learning environment and you lose something – like . . . . .?

Get my drift?

No way! Computers have practically replaced my maths teacher and the lessons are just terrible.
Without communication with an actual person, how much more boring would school be? Kids would never learn to respect adults if they don't at home because you can't exactly show respect and courtesy to a metal machine, can you? Well, it would be pretty difficult to get kids to behave in class…

Every teacher is different, which is why everyone has different GPAs in college. That's the problem. I could be a mastermind in Calculus and get a D+ while Joe Schmo doesn't know crap and gets an A because he had a lenient teacher. The system needs to be organized so that everyone has the same fair chance of getting an A.

Yea, I have every single different teaching style this semester. I have the:

1. Teacher who reads straight from the powerpoints, but lenient with tests.
2. The dictator who plans the class to the minute and is very boring and has assigned seats and pop-quizes
3. Professor you can't understand because of his accent and doesn't know how to communicate and teach.
4. The best teacher of them all – the lenient one who doesn't care too much about grades, and has a very open style of learning.

The first three should be replaced my computers.

Computers dont give boring lectures like our school teachers

i agree. some teachers are SO bad. I was in gymnastics, about to do a flip for the first time, and my teacher was meant to be spotting me. I was getting ready, and just about to do one when i notice she's talking to another student, "I don't care whether you pass or fail, i get paid either way." and she wonders why i'm scared of doing one! she doesn't care
the system needs revising. But what are they going to do? tell us how to use google, then let us run wild with a slight warning, "try not to go onto any… inappropriate… websites."?

Computers are not yet at the point where they can adaptively run a class room. There is no neural network program sophisticated enough to deal with every question a student may ask. This comes with two problems right off the top of my head.

1) Students will be limited in their ability to phrase questions to the computeacher. The machine will only be able to listen to and react upon specific commands or queries. So unless every student can phrase a question in a similar or pre-programmed fashion, the machine has just gotten confused.

2) The machine will be much more easy to distract or derail than a human teacher. It doesn't get impatient, which to a small extent is important with human teachers. It empowers us to keep a lesson moving forward. The machine will continually take queries and answer them because it's primary job will be instruction and answering misunderstandings. A group of students could tie the machine up for lessons on end in that fashion. No amount of programming is going to allow the machine to stop answering questions, there will always be a phrase or set of words that cause the machine to tangent worse than a human.

Computers are a very good tool, but there are many things a computer can't do. Yes a computer can replace my horribly bad math teacher from last year, but there is no way a computer can replace the *few* really good teachers left in the world.

I think they should because you can find everything on the internet now days plus we would`t have to listen to some stupid teacher some of them are pretty cool but the computer would be quiet …

Most of the "everything" you find on the internet is uncontrolled, unverifiable content. If you think the computer can just rattle off most things it finds on the internet, than most of what it says is going to be nonsense.

Also, quiet does not equal a good teacher. It usually means a teacher who will be spoken over by the children all day.

hmm up until that point i viewed you as intelligent

teachers not only teach the subjects but they also teach all kind of life lessons. Also, you learn to get over stage fright and you will need person to person contact for job interviews.