Renowned director Ram Gopal Varma is shaking up the education discourse with a scathing social media critique. Posting on X, he insists the conventional schooling model is a relic, unfit for the AI revolution sweeping industries.
Once vital when knowledge was locked in books, rote education loses relevance as AI accesses and processes information at lightning speed. No doctor, engineer, or lawyer can match its efficiency in recalling diseases, formulas, or judgments.
Take aspiring doctors: Years dissecting bodies and treatments, culminating in 10-year odysseys, but AI delivers spot-on diagnoses while robots wield scalpels. Varma laments parents herding children—particularly from low-income families—into these vanishing job markets, fueled by sheep-like adherence to norms.
He calls on parents and educators to pivot: Train kids in AI prowess, not memorization marathons. Rebellion is key—ignore naysayers fixated on syllabi and conformity. The old guard clings to familiarity, breeding superstitions that doom the young.
This system self-destructs without intervention, Varma predicts. Society must strategize alternatives through diligence, ensuring youth aren’t pawns in obsolete rituals. Otherwise, a youth uprising will redefine futures on their terms.