AI Short-Circuits Learning—the Ancient Fix We Need

University students engage in fierce intellectual combat, not with each other but with their laptops, crafting the perfect prompt to make AI write their essays. “Got it! It gave me a full analysis with cited examples,” one student whispers. No questions asked. No thinking required.

This moment crystallizes what education researchers now confirm: Students have inverted Bloom’s Taxonomy. Instead of building from fundamental knowledge toward creation, they’re delegating the…