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Thanks to AI, the market now rewards a different personality trait from ages past: supreme self-confidence. Or gall. Deposit Photos What if AI-driven job loss is due to an educational failure? Better yet, what if it could be corrected with a new way of instructing our youth? To appreciate this bold proposal, let’s recall the origins of our educational system. Much of America’s modern school model traces back to 19th-century Prussia’s standardized ‘factory school’ approach. State-funded schools standardized what was taught, often aligning education with workforce need. As Allison Schrager writes for Quartz, “Factory owners required a docile, agreeable workers who would show up on time and do what their managers told them. Sitting in a classroom all day with a teacher was good training for that.” Building on that idea, Northwestern University economist Joel Mokyr describes the importance of this educational model on the population’s psyche in a paper for the Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, published by Elsevier. “Much of this education, however, was not technical in nature but social and moral. Workers who had always spent their working days in a domestic setting, had to be taught to follow orders, to respect the space and property rights of others, be punctual, docile, and sober.” There is little doubt that this type of education opened economic doors previously unavailable. It especially helped agrarian workers transition into modern forms of employment, starting with factories and cascading into the office-based jobs that now serve as the backbone of the professional class. At the end of the 18th century leading up to the Industrial Era, the USDA reports that of the 4 million Americans captured in the 1790 census, 9 out of 10 lived and worked on farms. By contrast, in 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported approximately 70.3…

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