Let's workshop this poem about how there remains things to teach kids even in our shifting times where, so one might say, we do not know if teaching them how to plant rice will be relevant in 20 years
How To Ride a Horse
Today is the first time, so we say
as AI leaps, where we do not know
what to teach kids
that will remain relevant—
yet we do know some things
(beyond how to prompt bots):
empathy and discipline,
adaptability and critical thought,
teamwork and metaphysics.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)
The title is also that of one of Disney's more hilarious Goofy shorts.