As the education scholar Gert Biesta has argued, over the 1980s and ’90s the very idea of “education” was displaced i...

Bookmarked The Right Words in the Right Order by William Davies. As the education scholar Gert Biesta has argued, over the 1980s and ’90s the very idea of “education” was displaced in favor of an ideal of “learning.” Education implies a teacher, a subject, and a purpose; learning is something an individual does. What Biesta termed “learnification” meant that the transmission and application of knowledge became a priority across society and the economy in order to produce more active, independent, and prosperous citizens. Not only was “learning” (unlike “education”) something that could occur anytime and anywhere, but evidence of it would be found in practical applications, that is, the ability of individuals to achieve their goals. Pedagogy became anchored in cognitive science, so as to instrumentalize it in the service of economic ends and The threat posed by LLMs is not so much that they remove the difficulty of reading and writing (as the agonistic humanists would have it), as that…