Can Robot Replace The Educational Roles of Teachers?

When we think of the word “future”, what comes into our mind? Some of us may think of robots. Yes, these days artificial intelligence (AI) has been growing fast. The fear of losing our job to technology has become very real. However, while technology can solve a lot of societal problems, technology has its limits. For example, I personally think that robots cannot replace teachers’ educational roles. Even though robots know a lot more facts than teachers, they don’t have the teaching skills needed in the classroom, while teachers have those skills.

It seems that the teacher’s work is simple. They just need to know the topic and talk about it. However, this is not at all the case. Just to tell facts to children is not enough. Children are different from each other. They think differently, understand differently, and are interested in different things. Teachers can’t just tell all of the facts and leave the classroom. They have to try to convey the topic to everyone. They will come up with different cases from life or invent stories where they can show the application of the topic. In other words, teachers have to improvise in teaching and robots don’t have the ability to improvise while teaching. They are only able to tell facts of the topic without improvisation.

Most of the time, most teachers become very close to the children. Children spend a lot of time with their teachers, talking about various topics and the teachers will always support and help them with compassion and love. As a result, children will slowly develop their trust in their teachers. Robots don’t have compassion and love and therefore they cannot become as close as real people.

It’s the teachers’ job to widen horizons and to show young people what may be possible. They offer ideas from many different disciplines so that children begin to understand what is known and knowable in the world. They breed curiosity about what might be possible. They show learning needs have no limits. They open up the world, look globally for inspiration and opportunities, whereas robots’ guidance is only limited to telling facts.

In conclusion, even though artificial intelligence has been growing rapidly, robots know a lot more facts, and they are less prone to stress and tiredness, they can never replace teachers in the classroom.