{"id":16000,"date":"2025-07-10T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/?p=16000"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:46:16","slug":"ai-and-education-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/ai-and-education-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and Education: Training the Mind Before Using the Machine- Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><h2>By Leigh Bortins Without AI<\/h2>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/ai-and-the-future-of-education-part-one\/\">Part One<\/a>, I described my credentials in pursuing homeschooling with humans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cslewisinstitute.org\/resources\/john-lennox-defines-artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defined AI<\/a>, and asked many questions beyond the common discussion on AI\u2019s impact on plagiarism and student integrity. I spent over 80 hours researching, thinking, speaking, and writing before I completed part one.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/ai-writing-tools-vs-human-creativity-part-two\/\">Part Two<\/a>, I let AI do the work as I improved my engineered prompts (better questions). Part Two required 10 minutes to complete the final draft due to a couple of weak prompts on my part. Two things to notice \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can tell Part Two is not my writing and my voice<\/li>\n<li>AI could only write Part Two because the CC team has spent 30 years thinking and writing copiously about classical, Christian education and posting information to be scrapped by AI online. AI requires accurate, authorized, not average aggregated information to explain things well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this Part Three post, I want to address what I call the \u201cMonday\u201d problem. What do we actually do with AI, our families, and all this philosophy on Monday morning?<\/p>\n<h2>AI and Children: Let Them Grow Strong First<\/h2>\n<p>I believe <strong>there is no reason for children in <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/programs\/foundations\/\"><strong>Foundations<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/programs\/essentials\/\"><strong>Essentials<\/strong><\/a><strong>, or <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/programs\/challenge\/challenge-a\/\"><strong>Challenge A<\/strong><\/a><strong> to use AI or digital tools for anything<\/strong>. Let your children play with God\u2019s creation and simple toys. If you are vigilant in the early years, your children will be strong enough to occasionally use digital tools at home for <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/programs\/challenge\/challenge-b\/\">Challenge B<\/a> assignments and beyond.<\/p>\n<h2>Is AI Diminishing Our Ability to Think?<\/h2>\n<p>No one needs to use AI while learning how to think. There have been many American children born before the advent of the radio and compulsory education who were proficient readers, meaning they could <strong>read, analyze, and synthesize information<\/strong>. This is <strong>also called thinking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The decline in literacy, and hence, thinking, has occurred since the age of electronic entertainment allowed us, in the words of Neil Postman, to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversationsbooks.com\/products\/2s055?utm_campaign=7171494-blog-Bookstore&amp;utm_source=bookstore&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_term=bookstore&amp;utm_content=Amusing%20Ourselves%20to%20Death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amuse ourselves to death<\/a>.\u201d As with any digital technology \u2013 calculators, word processors, image generators \u2013 brainwaves are diminished when AI is used compared to when people think for themselves.<\/p>\n<h2>Early Education and Digital Delay<\/h2>\n<p>The wisdom of homeschooling parents since the 1980s is that children are naturally attentive when they never watch TV, play video games, or use laptops. Electronic overstimulation is damaging to cognitive skills. The best advice is to delay using any digital device until the student is a very strong thinker and doesn\u2019t actually need the tool. Use AI when you don\u2019t really need to use AI. Then it will be a powerful verifier of what you already estimate \u2013 much like a calculator does now.<\/p>\n<h2>AI and Education: Why CC Families Thrive<\/h2>\n<p>Families join CC for the <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/community-search\/\">community<\/a> \u2013 to learn from one another. To become better at knowing God and making Him known. We can succeed by only using the same resources as His disciples \u2013 people who think and pray together.<\/p>\n<p>CC families have the reputation of learning how to think together. We plan to continue cultivating the reputation that <strong>we help one another strengthen our weaknesses and amplify our strengths<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The world of employment focuses only on strengthening strengths, which is economically efficient. The world of academics focuses on strengthening weaknesses, which is called education. AI used inappropriately weakens our weaknesses. If you love someone, you will work to strengthen their weaknesses.<\/p>\n<h2>CC Tutors and the Timeless Strength of Classical Education<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/classical-conversations-tutor-model-and-mentor\/\"><strong>CC Tutors<\/strong><\/a><strong> have no reason to bring AI into our seminars.<\/strong> They already provide the best AI training possible for children because classical education is truly timeless and timely.<\/p>\n<p>During the digital age, many parents asked us to include computer coding in the curriculum. We have been able to respond with, \u201cWe do. We study the fundamentals of language together so your children may learn any language. Programming languages are much simpler to learn than the Latin studied in <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/programs\/challenge\/\">Challenge<\/a> or your mother tongue in <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/programs\/essentials\/\">Essentials<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Rule-Based and Behavior-Based Language: A Classical Perspective<\/h2>\n<p>All humans learn to process words through behavior-based language. You cannot help but speak like the people around you. You say what they say. We all do it. Accents, slang, jargon, cliches \u2013 no one needs to be literate to speak like those around them. Classicalists go one step farther \u2013 recovering the damage done by modern education \u2013 we also teach rule-based language.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, young children went to Grammar Schools (not Elementary Schools) to learn the rules of language, called <em>grammar<\/em>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/programs\/essentials\/\">Essentials<\/a>, CC parents teach the parts of speech, the word lists of the parts, the sentence patterns, the structures of word endings, paragraphs, essays, and poetry, as well as stylistic techniques that improve our ability to use both behavior-based and rule-based language.<\/p>\n<p>Behavior-based language is local and specific. Rule-based language is universal and integrated.<\/p>\n<h4>Learn more about the difference between <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/classical-vs-modern-education\/\">Classical vs Modern Education<\/a><\/h4>\n<h2>How AI Mimics Human Language<\/h2>\n<p>Digital language models and now AI large language models can process words because of the rules of grammar, as well as algorithms that analyze the expected behavior of words based on statistics. Complete this phrase, \u201cFish and \u2026\u201d You most likely said \u2018chips\u2019 not cucumbers. AI algorithms do the same thing \u2013 they use the most probable phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Computers only know off and on. Humans have figured out how to use off and on, represented by zeros and ones, with math to mimic language skills through plastic, wires, silicon, and rare earth metals.<\/p>\n<p>By practicing presentations and forensics from the age of 4 (\u201cAny questions?\u201d) to the age of 18 (\u201cShould Hamlet be put on trial and for what crime?\u201d) with Classical Conversations, you have been expanding your family\u2019s behavior-based language abilities beyond what most families would even recognize as possible.<\/p>\n<h2>Classically Prepared AI in Education<\/h2>\n<p>By studying Latin, logic, and the essentials of language, as well as math words, notations, laws, calculations, and algorithms, your family has at least a dozen years of rule-based and behavior-based language practice. Without us knowing it, the Lord prepared the classically educated Body of Christ to use AI (and any technical advancement) with knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.<\/p>\n<h2>A New Responsibility for Parents<\/h2>\n<p>But adults have a new responsibility to learn with the children they love. All that work training your children to think\u2014in their heads, with other humans, in seminars, at the family table, on paper\u2014can be undone if you are not vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s your love for your children and your great desire for them to love God with their whole hearts, minds, and souls that will motivate you to be vigilant. The new responsibility is to teach your children to use digital technologies sparingly.<\/p>\n<h2>Be Vigilant: Guarding Thought and Virtue<\/h2>\n<p>Vigilance will be easier if you continue to live among people who support your passion for loving the Lord with your whole heart, mind, and soul. Parents, with the Body of Christ, serve as gatekeepers and champions of virtue.<\/p>\n<p>Moms and Dads model curiosity, set boundaries, and prayerfully evaluate their child\u2019s ability, not an AI\u2019s ability, to elevate \u201cwhatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, and whatsoever things are of good report.\u201d (Phil. 4:8).<\/p>\n<p>Anything less than vigilance will lead to sloth induced by digital convenience.<\/p>\n<h3>A Warning from Postman and Huxley<\/h3>\n<p>Listen to Neil Postman in <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversationsbooks.com\/products\/2s055?utm_campaign=7171494-blog-Bookstore&amp;utm_source=bookstore&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_term=bookstore&amp;utm_content=Amusing%20Ourselves%20to%20Death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amusing Ourselves to Death<\/a>, written in 1985. \u201cWhat Orwell (<em>1984<\/em>) feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley (<em>Brave New World<\/em>) feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Literacy, Thought, and the Think-Nots<\/h2>\n<p>I believe we can\u2019t stop the decline in literacy unless we practice thinking without AI first. You must develop your human intellectual potential, or like Huxley feared, AI will give us so much information that we will be reduced to passivity (Why work?) and egoism (I don\u2019t need to know that). Much of mankind has already fallen prey to Postman\u2019s warnings.<\/p>\n<h3>From Haves to Think-Nots<\/h3>\n<p>During the Industrial Era, the idea of \u201cthe haves and have-nots\u201d became prevalent. Before that, everyone was materially poor and didn\u2019t know it. Men with vision used the new tools of industry to make lives better for all of us, but the result was to widen both the wealth and the knowledge gaps.<\/p>\n<p>During the Digital Era, what I call the era of \u201cthe maths and the math-nots,\u201d those who embraced digital tools developed engineered products, services, and support never dreamed of before. Even though all humans materially benefited, the wealth and knowledge gap widened again. After COVID, we entered the AI Era, what I call the era of \u201cthe thinks and the think-nots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you know how to think well, deeply, and for sustained periods, AI is going to increase 100x your personal wealth and knowledge. But once again, the wealth and knowledge gap between the \u201cthinks and the think-nots\u201d will expand \u2013 a lot!<\/p>\n<h4>Listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/everydayeducatorpodcast.com\/ee-the-lesson-that-history-teaches-the-conversation-ch-9\/\">The Lesson History Teaches<\/a> from The Everyday Educator podcast<\/h4>\n<h2>AI: A Humbling Tool for Humans<\/h2>\n<p>CS Lewis, in <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversationsbooks.com\/products\/4s031?utm_campaign=7171494-blog-Bookstore&amp;utm_source=bookstore&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_term=bookstore&amp;utm_content=The%20Abolition%20of%20Man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Abolition of Man<\/em><\/a>, says, \u201cWhat we call Man&#8217;s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument&#8230;\u201d until science has abolished the need for mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Technology may not be inherently good or evil, but it can be inherently dangerous. To use a chainsaw effectively, one must have strong muscles, good balance, eyes that work well, knowledge of the blade and the material being cut, and a certain confidence that comes from a lot of practice.<\/p>\n<p>It is foolish to use a chainsaw prematurely or to show off. Even experts approach the tool with some caution. A chainsaw is only safe when it is not being used. AI is analogous to a chainsaw. Its use will damage the cognitively weak, but can be an amazing tool for the cognitively strong. Like a chainsaw, AI should be humbling to the user.<\/p>\n<h2>Modeling Good Habits: Parents First<\/h2>\n<p>Parents are the best model for good habits. <strong>Your habits will become your children\u2019s habits<\/strong>. This means you need to be careful about your own use of technology. I suggest parents only use digital technology when children are not in the room. However, I do think <strong>you should learn how to use AI before your children do<\/strong>. Lead them into good digital habits and then watch them soar past your digital interests and capabilities.<\/p>\n<h2>Family Tech Practices: A Classical Approach to AI and Homeschool<\/h2>\n<p>You may have older children who are strong enough to wield AI; hence, your younger children may be drawn into the presence of AI. With you in control of devices, some AI can enhance your time learning together as a family. The following are just suggestions for using AI as a family.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Draft a family tech charter<\/strong> that addresses data privacy, the dignity of human authorship, and Sabbath rest from screens.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss how your family archives and retrieves books, photos, music, and other artifacts.<\/li>\n<li>Look for examples to <strong>practice digital safety<\/strong> on phones, laptops, and other devices.<\/li>\n<li>Teach your children how to deal with boredom so they don\u2019t beg for electronic devices.<\/li>\n<li>Use image recognition apps on walks to identify flora, fauna, stars, and planets.<\/li>\n<li>Record your family singing the timeline or practicing presentations and then ask AI for feedback.<\/li>\n<li>After handwriting a Foundations or Essentials assignment, <strong>practice typing it on a laptop<\/strong>, but bring the handwritten version to seminar.<\/li>\n<li>Pull down a book before doing a digital search.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ask AI a question with your child<\/strong>, then revise the question after reviewing the answer.<\/li>\n<li>Use AI to generate worksheets after solving a math problem manually.<\/li>\n<li>Turn hand-drawn art into digital creations together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please, protect your children\u2019s sense of wonder at the things of God.<\/p>\n<h4>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/online-research-strategies-seven-tips\/\">Online Research Strategies: 7 Tips for Success<\/a><\/h4>\n<h2>Faith, Family, and the Future of AI<\/h2>\n<p>The AI and education discussion is just beginning. But as Christian classicalists, we are prepared to ask and answer the best questions.<\/p>\n<p>New homeschoolers ask a popular question: \u201cWhat subjects should I teach?\u201d<br \/>\nAI has not changed my response. \u201cI don\u2019t know!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When teaching my sons, I emphasized the <strong>art of studying<\/strong> anything because I don\u2019t know if my grandbabies, who my sons will teach, will be doctors, astronauts, missionaries, or plumbers. I don\u2019t know if our sons will have to parent through peace, war, tyranny, or freedom. I don\u2019t know if they will be rich or poor, have supportive wives or be widowed at an early age.<\/p>\n<p>And you know who else doesn\u2019t know these things? AI, the Department of Education, Classical Conversations, or even you!<\/p>\n<p>But I can tell you who does. <strong>God, not the state, directs your family daily towards His purposes.<\/strong> And every evening, we repent of our failures, we sleep, and we rise from the dead, forgiven and knowing His mercies are new every morning. We know we will never complete our academic studies. Only Jesus could say, \u201cIt is finished.\u201d The rest of us are just practicing until we hear the great, \u201cWell done!\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Hope for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>In a world where a machine can rob your capacity to think, I still live in great hope. I am energized by the parents who teach their children:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We live in a world with windows beyond this universe.<\/li>\n<li>We serve His purposes rather than our weaknesses.<\/li>\n<li>The family <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/how-to-be-a-good-father\/\">led by the father<\/a>, led by The Father, is the foundation of all other institutions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Thanks for raising children that know God and make Him known.<\/p>\n<h3>Read Leigh\u2019s blogs in the AI series:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/ai-and-the-future-of-education-part-one\/\"><strong>Who\u2019s Really Thinking? AI and the Future of Education- Part One<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/blog\/ai-writing-tools-vs-human-creativity-part-two\/\"><strong>AI Writing Tools vs. Human Creativity: Homeschooling with Humans- Part Two<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Join Leigh&#8217;s conversation about AI at Judson College:<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed vimeo responsive-container\"><div class=\"video-embed\"><iframe class=\"lazy\" title=\"Leigh&#039;s 2025 talk on AI at Judson College\"  src=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1096347188?h=f7c2252f1d&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\"  width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"><\/iframe> <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leigh Bortins Without AI In Part One, I described my credentials in pursuing homeschooling with humans, defined AI, and asked many questions beyond the common discussion on AI\u2019s impact on plagiarism and student integrity. 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