Could robots teach technical courses?

But you cannot blame a robot for your child's poor performance. Parents want under paid, over worked, humans that can be fired for not teaching their obstreperous recalcitrant children everything they believe to be true.

Not really fair on the kids!

I have found from my own experience when lecturing for a few years that it is important to maintain interest. It can be difficult to do this in a technical subject but it pays dividends. I was teaching thermodynamics to groups of 50. I had two groups out of a total of 500. I noticed that my students performed better than most of the others. In one group it was certainly down to the quality (intelligence, dedication) of the students. In the other case I just happened to get the Chemistry right. I focussed on getting them to enjoy the subject and not focus on every technical detail. The interesting thing was that I noticed that they were interested and managed to complete assignments correctly, but they often used methods that were variations on what I had taught them. Obviously, they had done some of their own reading (these were not always the studious types who would do this anyway). I had to put a lot of effort in to keep up this interest and when I was teaching another subject I put in less effort on the "interest raising" side, sticking more to standard curriculum. The results in this group were average compared to others. I would suggest that a robot teaching, unless a very inspired robot, might be more routine and fail to excite the students so that they use their own energy to learn more efficiently.

Hi everyone,

Robot is a machine and human being is another human but isn't a machine. They are totally different. Robot is good for "repeatetive" works but cannot adopt itself to new actions when something different happens as should be. Also, human being is tired with time, mentally and physically, and cannot maintain concentration and speed permenantly for hours and hours. The industries apply and use robots in very rare occasions, for welding and similar "repeatetive" functions. For sure, some intellectuals want to elaborate, try, and discover that cannot be used for many reasons. Finally, we discover that a human being is not a robot or cannot be one!

I was in China and see school teacher who learn English through hearing a tape. I discovered that those teachers cannot read and write a word in English because they never see the words came out from the tape. I'm against robot teaching to humans.

Use robots where thinking is absent and use human being everywhere else, Gil.