Round Table China
Round Table China
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The two-hour school day: efficiency or isolation?
24 minutes Posted Feb 12, 2026 at 8:25 am.
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A new American private school has replaced the teacher at the front of the classroom with a personal chatbot for every child. The model swaps the standard six-hour academic day for hyper-efficient, two-hour learning sprints. It is an exchange that places supreme value on personalized data transfer over human-led instruction. But can it work? On the show: Steve, Fei Fei & Yushan