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For middle-school and high-school teachers:

Feel free to borrow my picture. If your students ask why they should study and why they would want to go to college, I’d suggest pointing at my picture and saying, “Those were people once, people who got dressed up to go to work every day. His name was Harry. Her name was Sophie. But robots do their jobs now. The only jobs robots can’t take over yet are the ones where you think for yourself.

I like to put those robots on the radar. Kids need to understand that the pound-pound, flip-flip job too often can and will be handed to a machine nowadays. When wages become high enough, McDonalds will put kiosks at the front of the restaurant with one human to run the machines and control for exceptions. Our kids who understand this fact will be better able to see why the college pathway (or the right skilled trades) may be their best and eventually only good choice.