Philip Jackson
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Philip Jackson. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Philip Jackson's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The lesson that rewired my thinking was one I never knew I'd received.
Not from a teacher. Not from a book. From twelve years of sitting in rooms where I had to wait my turn. Where the answer didn't come when I wanted it. Where thirty other kids needed attention and I had to figure out what to do with the gap between raising my hand and being called on.
I never thought about those gaps. Nobody does. That's the point.
Philip Jackson spent decades watching classrooms — not teaching in them, not reforming them, just watching — and what he found was that the most consequential education happening in any school had nothing to do with the lesson plan. The waiting. The performing for evaluators whose standards you