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Is AI the answer to bridging the tuition gap?
A more ‘intelligent’ AI may offer a new, low-cost solution – and better ways of learning.
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As we embrace these new tools, we must also safeguard the human connections that make learning meaningful.
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Looi Chee Kit and Wong Lung Hsiang
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In March 2025, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates declared that AI or artificial intelligence could replace human teachers in a decade. If that proves true, the first to be replaced may not be mainstream educators but traditional private tuition teachers.
Classroom teaching is far more complex. School teachers do much more than explain content; they manage student behaviour, work with parents, support different learning needs and build trust with their students. These human aspects of teaching are still well beyond what AI can do.
