AI Just Ate Homework, Tests, and Half of All Jobs. Time to Build the School System Our Children Deserve.

Stop Educating Kids for 1950. Start Preparing Them for 2040; 

An Open Letter from 2025.

AI no longer behaves purely like a machine; it is evolving, learning, scaling, and reasoning at speeds that surpass any biological species. In just the past 36 months, we've seen the emergence of what leading researchers now openly call a new digital organism: superhuman processing speed, perfect recall, multimodal understanding, autonomous agency, exponential growth in parameters, and hive-level collective intelligence.[¹] This synthetic species is already surpassing humans in nearly every measurable cognitive aspect of knowledge work, and it is rapidly expanding worldwide.

Fig. 1 Design for the World That No Longer Exists, Build for the World We Live In

While we keep running schools as if nothing has changed, the world our children will inherit in 2040 has already begun.

Dear educators, parents, policymakers, and everyone who cares about the next generation,

The factory-era school model is outdated. We still group children by birth year, ring bells every 45 minutes, guide them through identical textbooks, and assess their performance with bubble-sheet tests that any free or $20 AI can now excel at in milliseconds. This system was never meant to develop innovators or resilient individuals; it was created to produce obedient workers who follow instructions and show up on time. That world is gone.

Routine tasks like memorizing facts, calculating, retrieving information, writing basic code, legal research, translation, and even diagnosing common diseases are being automated faster than most school boards can hold a committee meeting.

Global labor experts concur that by 2030, 47% of present tasks will be automated or undergo substantial transformation.[²][³] By the year 2040, upon the graduation of today’s kindergarten students, the majority of occupations they may seek will either have ceased to exist or will necessitate entirely novel skills beyond the scope of conventional curricula.

Teaching under the assumption that memorization is the ultimate human skill is not only outdated but also constitutes educational malpractice.

We don’t need another patch for a 1900 model; we need a full replacement.

Here's what a curriculum designed for the future looks like:

1. AI fluency is the new literacy: Every child must leave school able to collaborate with AI, just as previous generations learned to read and write through prompt engineering, fine-tuning, bias detection, ethical overrides, and knowing when to turn the machine off.
2. Mathematics reimagined: Emphasizing less rote algebra and instead focusing significantly on statistics, probability, optimization, linear algebra, game theory, and Bayesian reasoning; the mathematical foundations that truly drive artificial intelligence and other high-impact disciplines.
3. Project-Based, Real-World Mastery: Replace seat time with long-form, interdisciplinary projects. A 14-year-old should ship products, publish research, or solve real community problems.
4. Entrepreneurship and systems thinking are integrated from a young age: From the age of 10, students manage real micro-businesses, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), non-profit entities, or open-source projects, acquiring knowledge in accounting, marketing, ethics, and regulation in a manner comparable to how previous generations learned cursive.
5. Human skills amplified, not replaced: Creativity, moral philosophy, storytelling, empathy, negotiation, leadership, and aesthetics become core subjects, not electives.
6. Personalized Pathways and Stackable Credentials: Break the conveyor belt. Award industry-recognized micro-credentials throughout life, not just one diploma at 18.
7. Lifelong Learning Infrastructure School is the start, not the finish: Every citizen receives free or affordable reskilling every 3–5 years.

This is not science fiction. Singapore, Estonia, Finland, China (including Beijing, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang), South Korea, Canada (including Ontario), and numerous innovative districts and charter networks across the United States are already implementing extensive portions of this initiative with remarkable outcomes. [⁴][⁵][⁶]

The tools are available. The research is there. The proof points are present. The only thing lacking is courage.

To those who say, “We cannot afford this,” I reply: We cannot afford not to. To those who ask, “But what about the basics?” I answer: The fundamentals have changed.

We are the first generation capable of clearly understanding the world our children will inherit. Ignorance is no longer an excuse.

Could you stop patching the sinking ship and start building the ark? It's time to focus on larger solutions that can truly make a difference.

The class of 2040 is already in our classrooms. They deserve an education that enables them to grow alongside a new digital species, not one that conditions them to be defeated by it.

The era of gradual change has ended. The moment for transformation is here.

With urgency and unrelenting hope,

A parent, educator, and technologist who refuses to stay silent (not a guru or a politician),

References

1. Leopold Aschenbrenner, “Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead” (June 2024); Epoch AI, “Trends in Machine Learning” (2024–2025 updates).

2. World Economic Forum, “The Future of Jobs Report 2023”.

3. McKinsey Global Institute, “Jobs Lost, Jobs Gained: Workforce Transitions in a Time of Automation” (updated 2023–2024 projections).

4. Ministry of Education Singapore, “Learn for Life” reforms & Skills Future framework (2019–2025).

5.  OECD Education 2030 Framework & PISA Innovative Schools reports – Estonia, Finland, Ontario, Shanghai (2023–2025).

6. Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, “2024–2035 Master Plan on Building China into a Leading Country in Education” (2025); OECD PISA Reports on Beijing-Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai (2022–2025 updates); South Korea Ministry of Education, “Education Innovation Roadmap” (2024–2028)

By Dr. Fitsum 

December 4, 2025

Crucial Element to Play the WIN and WIN Game 

key Performance Indicator (KPI) Plus Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

KPI is a crucial element to play the WIN and WIN game rules for the competitor industrial applications.

Main KPI parameters: 

1. The quality,
2. Cost,
3. Flexibility,
4. Reliability,
5. Safety, 
6. Environment/community, 
7. Employees satisfaction, 
8. Customer satisfaction,
9. Learning and growth.

KPI is the physical values to measure, compare, and manage the overall organizational performance; while AHP is a tool for decision.

The Action of Predicting the Pandemic and World Preparation

An Epidemic to Pandemic COVID-19/CORA-VIRUS

The pandemic COVID-19/CORA-virus nowadays is increasing in worldwide exponentially. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially gave international name so-called COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus) to discuss the prevention, spread, transmissibility, severity, and treatment. The name was given on February 11, 2020 (ref.1). These days the world scientists, doctors and engineers are doing research vigilantly to exterminate Cora-virus.

The discovery of the CORA/CORONA Name

The word Cora in classical mythology means the goddess of fertility in the underworld life (ref.2). The hereditary common Corona name existed in between 1842 and 1920 in the USA, Canada, and Scotland. The Corona surname was implied in California, USA in 1920 (ref.3). Whereas in the scientific world, Corona viruses name derives after electron microscopic examination and illustration, looks like a “corona,” or halo (sun surrounds rays or crown) (ref.4).

The most common signs of coronavirus and timeline 

It is very important to know the common symptoms and timelines of this diseases to prevent the spread of the virus (shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2.). In addition to fever, dry cough, fatigue, etc. Recently research in CDC shows coronavirus symptoms include muscle pain, a red throat (pharyngeal erythema), skin problems, inflammatory, red eyes, chapped lips, loss of taste, and smell (ref.5-8). This is an airborne disease; it spreads so easily because it’s contagious about a day before you notice the first symptoms. This pointed out how critical to avoid touching your face, nose and eyes to stop the spread of the disease.

Figure 1 The common symptoms of corona-virus (ref.5)

Figure 2 COVID-19 symptoms and Timeline (ref.6)

The Worst Epidemic and Pandemic Virus in history
The top 20-21*of the worst epidemics and pandemics virus in historical places, starting from 3000 B.C. up to present day (ref.9).
1. Circa 3000 B.C. from China
2. Plague of Athens: 430 B.C.
3. Antonine Plague: A.D. 165-180
4. Plague of Cyprian: A.D. 250-2714. Plague of Cyprian: A.D. 250-271
6. The Black Death: 1346-1357. 
7. Cocoliztli epidemic: 1545-1548 
8. American Plagues: 16th century
9. Great Plague of London: 1665-1666
10.Great Plague of Marseille: 1720-1723
11.Russian plague: 1770-1772
12. Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic: 1793
13. Flu pandemic: 1889-1890
14. American polio epidemic: 1916
16. Asian Flu: 1957-1958 
17. AIDS pandemic and epidemic: 1981-present day
18. H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic: 2009-2010
19. West African Ebola epidemic: 2014-2016 
20. Zika Virus epidemic: 2015-present day 
21*. COVID-19 Virus pandemic: 2019-present day

COVID_19 first time started in Wuhan, China in late 2019 where the gears have changed from epidemic to extremely severe pandemic. This killer looks like crown-spike on the surface, the cross-section shows the inner components of the virus shown in Figure 3 were derived from a CDC released image (re.7). 

Figure 3 3D Medical illustration of 2019 Novel Coronavirus,

The Common Human Coronaviruses

The human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid of 1960s (ref.10); the coronaviruses that can infect people are known as alpha (α), beta (β), gamma (γ), and delta (δ) (ref.10).

1. 229E (α coronavirus)

2. NL63 (α coronavirus)

3. OC43 (β coronavirus)

4. HKU1 (β coronavirus)

5. MERS-CoV (the beta coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS)

6. SARS-CoV (the beta coronavirus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS)

7. SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19)

Blood Type Associated with COVID-19

No matter what blood type you have, keeping a healthy lifestyle, and managing health contingency factors is very important for avoiding diseases. Lately the study in the southern university of science and technology in China concerning blood type associated with coronavirus have shown a significantly higher risk for blood type A and lower risk for the blood type O infection (ref.11-12). In addition to this study, people with type O blood have the lowest risk of developing circulatory diseases and cognitive disorders like coronary heart disease and pancreatic cancer compared to people with A, B, and AB blood types(ref.11).

The Situation of the Virus

It's very suspicious, this Covid-19 virus can be transmitted from humans to animals and vice versa. Recently, in New York at the Bronx Zoo, four tigers and three lions have tested COVID-19 positive (ref.13). The situation of the virus may occur naturally from animals (bat or pangolins); may have escaped from the research facility lab in Wuhan due to poor safety protocols (ref.14). Other suggestions or conspiracy could be a biowarfare virus while this ideology comprehensively rejected by scientists (ref.15).

 

The H1NI flu ''Spanish flu'' killed 50 million internationally and 675,000 people in the United States in 1918 (ref.16). Nowadays, the world is struggling were never by this virus; in worldwide contemporary 4,652,420 cases and 309,086 deaths are registered as of May 16, 2020, and the USA is the top number one country by having 1,484,579 cases and 88,523 deaths (ref.17). 

The action of Predicting the Pandemic and World Preparation

Related to the pandemic virus, the entertainment industry particularly Hollywood film production predicted in a very similar way in Contagion movie, 2011. This industry made more than 50 movies related to airborne pathogens disease (ref. 18). Some of the overwhelmed conspiracy theories under this virus have been doing viral on social media like 'The Eyes of The Darkness', 'End of Days' and ‘Bart to the Future'. Any of these predictions are pure speculation. Researchers or specialists are more accurate, and all say the same thing again and again. Bill Gates predicted coronavirus outbreak death by citing research from the Institute for Disease Modeling (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security) in 2018, researcher modeled on SARS and run a simulation suggested 65 million people could die within 18 months (ref.19). Despite having this predication, the world is not prepared for it.

Coronavirus map as of May 10, 2020 tracking the global outbreak by the New York times shows in Figure 4.

Figure 4 The global outbreak Coronavirus map tracking

Figure 5 Cumulative number of cases (by number of days since 10,000 cases)

What you can do to Protect and Prevent Spreading of Covid-19?

We all are under extremely high-pressure by an airborne disease; thousands of people are dying each day. World is never experience before by this most contagious virus. All of us should fight like a soldier in this battle, not only medical doctors but also engineers across the world should react proactively to prepare significant solutions by inventing sustainable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), create portable-faster, and accurate test equipment, breathing and respiratory equipment generate new model systems to predicted and understand physiology and chemistry effects of Covid virus.

Presently we have an unbounded global spread of COVID-19; all of us affected either directly by the virus or through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks. Aerosolized coronavirus particles can remain viable up to three hours in the air, indicating it can infect a person within these hours after being expelled (ref.20). You can be infected by breathing in the virus if you are within one meter of a person who has COVID-19, or by touching a contaminated surface and then touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. The most high-touch contaminated surfaces are door handle, elevator buttons, pedestrian crosswalk traffic light button, shopping cart handles, public bathroom fixtures, vending machines, public trolleys, steering wheel, keys, bus handrails, and train handrails. Make ensures your hands are clean disinfected again and won't transfer the virus to your equipment and meticulously care for your body interaction. Don't ever touch your face, habituate this behavior. Avoid close contact with people minimum 2m away from vulnerable folks who have active symptoms of disease. You must handle those types of interaction carefully by gloves or disinfect it (sanitize by alcohol) and wash your hand thoroughly to protect your family (at least 20 seconds) before contacting them change your cloth and take shower if you are coming from the outdoor. Numerous precaution measures must be taken by us to protect and prevent spreading the virus between the public.

Most importantly, do not fear, do no panic and do no lose displeasure, this is our common sorrow and pain. Simple method to control and prevent; stay home sweet home, follow common hygiene, do not t neglect basic PPE and protective measures. The Covid-19 is different virus, stay aware of and get latest updated real information from WHO and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Stay Home like Isaac Newton during Pandemic Virus, and make 2020 a ‘Wonder Year’

Like this pandemic virus in 1665-1666 (Great Plague) Newton was under lock-down in London at his early age 20s from his university Cambridge, the miracles times to think came for him, he began work on his discoveries in the fields of calculus, motion, optics and gravitation. Thus, do not go outside and take your life in risk, it is good to be home, stay at your disposal, study, think positive and discover science and make 2020 ‘wonder years’, God will always make a way. One of the best-known children's songs during epidemic Great Plague, since 1666 from the English-speaking world (ref. 21-22).

"Ring-a-ring of roses,

A pocketful of posies,

Attischo, Attischo,

We all fall down”

References

1. https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html
2. https://nameberry.com/babyname/Cora
3. https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=corona
4. https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/explainer-what-is-a-coronavirus
5. https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2020/03/11/coronavirus-symptoms-testing-covid19/5020645002/
6. https://www.healio.com/pediatrics/emerging-diseases/news/online/%7B50cc6414-cc52-491397a2-a5ca217b6caf%7D/common-covid-19-symptoms-in-kids-include-fever-cough-red-throat
7. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/04/covid-toes-odd-rashes-health-care-professionals-explore-role-skin-problems-could-have-in-coronavirus-diagnosis.html
8. https://www.the-sun.com/news/837947/mom-reveals-sons-symptoms-covid-linked-condition/utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly
9. https://nameberry.com/babyname/Cora
10. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.htm
11. Ewald DR, Sumner SC. Blood type biochemistry and human disease.WileyInterdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. 2016;8(6):517‐535.
12. https://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/study-suggests-blood-type-a-associated-with-higher-risk of-covid-19
13. https://abc7ny.com/bronx-zoo-tiger-with-coronavirus-tigers-lions/6122810/
14. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html
15. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/04/21/coronavirus-who-says-evidence-shows covid-19-not-made-lab/2995236001/
16. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html
17. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
18. https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/best-pandemic-movies-on-netflix-hulu-prime-and-more.html
19. https://tbsnews.net/international/bill-gates-predicted-coronavirus-outbreak-death-33-million-  people-2018-39867
20. https://www.livescience.com/covid19-coronavirus-transmission-through-speech.html
21. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.htm
22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVT4pt2FxXU

Fundamental Nature of Knowledge, Reality, and Existence: The Scientific Revolution on the Fundamental Scien...

Fundamental Nature of Knowledge, Reality, and Existence: The Scientific Revolution on the Fundamental Scien...: Article-04/10/2020, by Fitsum Taye Feyissa The Scientific Revolution on the Fundamental Science of Physics Scientific Fact and P...

The Scientific Revolution on the Fundamental Science of Physics; Scientific Fact and Philosophical Fun

Article-04/10/2020, 

The Scientific Revolution on the Fundamental Science of Physics

Scientific Fact and Philosophical Fun

How a new idea is coming from our minds?  

A million ordinarily people observe natural circumstances, while few asked why? what matters is only the way of observation and think.

The Scientific Revolution about Gravity

A timeline and philosophical thinking about the gravity starting from 460 BC up to date:

Democritus (460 BC to 370 BC) - Aristotle (384 BC to 322 BC) - Haytham (965 BC to 1050) - Galileo (1564 to 1642) - Newton (1642 to 1727) - Albert Einstein (1879 to 1955) - Steven Hackwin (1942 to 2018) - Erik Verlinde (1962 till now).

A formal speech about gravity causes: Gravity is a natural phenomenon that gives weight to the physical object. Gravity causes all matter to be attracted to other matter, from the subatomic to the cosmic levels.

Democritus was the greatest pupil of Leucippus who wrote dozens of works on every field of knowledge. Who was picking up the root idea of the atom from his teacher about the matter and the various kinds of atoms moving through the void and collided due to a force?

This kind of justification of physical phenomena was the precursor to the theory of gravity and modern science (ref.1). Aristotle observes and thinks logically about gravity, in his mind, theoretically, if he drops two balls identical in all ways but mass, the heavier ball should fall faster than a lighter one (ref.2). Galileo Galilei made the experiment with dropping balls and proven Aristotle was wrong. By his experimental work, the two balls hit the ground at the same time (ref.3).

Isaac Newton realized gravity from an apple fall from a tree (Figure 1). Any particle of matter in the universe attracts any other with a force varying directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them, F=Gm₁m₂/r² (ref.4). Although Newton learned about gravity from the books of the great philosopher Ibn al-Haytham (ref.4), he's Law gives people a better understanding of motion. Einstein improved Newton's conception of space by adding time as a fourth coordinate (ref.5). Quantum mechanics and gravity explore by Steven Hackwin followed by Erik, the lensing effect of gravity & dark matter (the mysterious extra gravity). 

Figure 1 Gravity from an apple fall from a tree to impact of science on space (ref.5)

References

1. Papaspirou, Panagiotis, and Xenophon Moussas. "A brief tour into the history of gravity: from Democritus to Einstein." American Journal of Space Science 1.1 (2013): 33.
2. Adler, Carl G., and Byron L. Coulter. "Galileo and the Tower of Pisa experiment." American Journal of Physics 46.3 (1978): 199-201.
3. Atkinson, David, and Jeanne Peijnenburg. "Galileo and prior philosophy. " Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 35.1 (2004): 115-136.
4. https://sciencing.com/first-person-discover-gravity-23003.html
5. Keesing, R. G. "The history of Newton's apple tree." Contemporary Physics 39.5 (1998): 377-391.
6.  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333146650_New_Concept_of_Gravity
7. https://sites.google.com/site/1600scientists/how-isaac-newton-changed-the-world?tmpl=%2Fsystem%2Fapp%2Ftemplates%2Fprint%2F&showPrintDialog=1
8. https://www.space.com/graviton-photon-interaction-hunting-machine.html

Will Continue...Scientific Fact and Philosophical Fun

Gravitation are mass-less and travel at the speed of light' Albert Einstein. 

'Gravitation have mass and move slower than the speed of light (ref.6).

What would you do if you have a time machine?

New theory of gravity might explain dark matter, by Erik Verlinde shown Figure 2. (ref.7) 

Figure 2 The curious motions of stars in galaxies

Faith and Wisdom

Bible Fact. 

Everything was created for the purpose. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction (Prov. 1:7).Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear of all these statutes and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people." Deuter. 4:6.

Prov.1:7

የጥበብ መጀመሪያ እግዚአብሔርን መፍራት ነው፤ ሰነፎች ግን ጥበብንና ተግሣጽን ይንቃሉ።
4 ፤ እናንተ ግን አምላካችሁን እግዚአብሔርን የተከተላችሁ እስከ ዛሬ ድረስ ሁላችሁ በሕይወት ትኖራላችሁ።
5 ፤ እነሆ፥ እናንተ ገብታችሁ በምትወርሱአት ምድር ውስጥ እንዲህ ታደርጉ ዘንድ አምላኬ እግዚአብሔር እንዳዘዘኝ ሥርዓትንና ፍርድን አስተማርኋችሁ።
6 ፤ ጠብቁአት አድርጉአትም፤ ይህችን ሥርዓት ሁሉ ሰምተው። በእውነት ይህ ታላቅ ሕዝብ ጠቢብና አስተዋይ ሕዝብ ነው በሚሉ በአሕዛብ ፊት ጥበባችሁና ማስተዋላችሁ ይህ ነውና፤

Deuter. 4-32-33
32 ፤ እግዚአብሔር ሰውን በምድር ላይ ከፈጠረው ጀምሮ፥ ከሰማይ ዳር እስከ ዳርቻዋ ድረስ ከቶ እንዲህ ያለ ታላቅ ነገር ወይም እንደ እርሱ ያለ ተሰምቶ እንደሆነ ከአንተ በፊት የነበረውን የቀደመውን ዘመን ጠይቅ።
33 ፤ አንተ ከእሳት ውስጥ ሆኖ ሲናገር የእግዚአብሔርን ድምፅ እንደ ሰማህ፥ ሌላ ሕዝብ ሰምቶ በሕይወት ይኖራልን?

Article-04/10/2020, 

Dr. Fitsum Taye Feyissa