Jim Dickinson offers "a secret that would get me thrown out of the Magic Circle," specifically that "the industrial model of education was built on scarcity, and scarcity made a certain kind of pretending possible... a period of pretending that the old skills still mattered." Why? "Maybe the sorting and the signalling is the problem. The degree classification system was designed for an elite era where classification signalled that the graduate was better than other people." The existence of AI eliminates that scarcity. So "if the content delivery can be automated, the campus has to be for something else. That something else is formation." In other words, "shift from 'I have information you lack' to 'I can work with you on problems that matter.'... from 'I'm better than you' to 'I can contribute.' From pretending to becoming." Maybe it's cultivating judgement, maybe it's knowing how we know. "The hopeful answer is that universities can be places where people become more fully human."
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