The school as we know it was not designed: it was the point where the State, the factory, the church, and the empire converged. Two hundred years later, we still teach inside that form — and in no discipline does it show more than in mathematics.

There we keep training everyone as if they were going to be mathematicians, solving the problems that fascinated the Greeks, the Arabs, the geometers of every century. And yes: it is a fascinating discipline. But most people were not taught mathematics: they were taught senselessness — the formula because-I-said-so — and the anxiety of not understanding why.

I propose inverting the order: that the skills forged solving the problems of the past be placed, at last, in the service of the problems of the present. That used to be impossible — the classroom was held hostage by the procedural. Not anymore.

AI can take over that front: the algorithm, the technique, the practice that builds fluency, optimized until mastery takes the least time possible. Let the standardized test stop being the center and become a formality: let us break it by saturation, with everyone answering at a level where it can no longer stratify anyone.

And then the classroom is free for what no machine can answer: understanding why, and imagining solutions to water scarcity.

I can't do this alone.