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One more way coronavirus lockdown is a threat to a whole lot of trades. Once it is over, not only will a whole lot of people have figured out that it isn't all that hard to cut your own hair or your spouse/family member's hair, but we'll have figured out how to have robots do it.

Same goes for a whole lot of other things. Education is probably going to take the biggest hit. I'm ok with this overall, but it's going to hurt a lot for some people.

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You sound like someone who hasn't cared about a child while trying to keep a full-time job. I bet many parents would support giving childcare/education professionals a raise after having to do the job themselves for a few months...

I actually am one of those parents. Childcare and education are actually two different things. They tend to be combined into one in schools, but that isn't the only approach.

There is also college education, which is a bit different. I could see many people choosing to simply pay for an institution to give them tests to prove they actually learned the material, while the actual learning is done independently. If you against this, well, you sound like someone who had their college paid for by their parents.

I think you are over selling it, sure we are gonna use some new tools but I don't think schools nor teachers are gonna disappear just yet. Education is more than just learning theories from a book/site/app/whatever.

I didn't say disappear. But a lot of people are realizing that other approaches are valid as well. (often people who were much more closed minded about such things prior to lockdown)

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