Do robots serve as a better teacher than human?

The lack of a subjective view could allow robots to be by far and superior to a human instructor unless something hands on needs to be done or some sort of personal experience in the field is significantly important to the teaching of the class.

It might be, can’t be much worse than what we have now.

Technology lacks the sophistication in robotics to make a teaching robot yet, but probably some day.

@marinelife,-well I think you are right. Maybe my question should add “someday”

A robot indeed could do a better job than many of the teachers I have encountered during my education and my sons. But a robot I do not believe could be the mentor, leader and role model that many of the dedicated fine teaches I have had the pleasure to meet who really love what they do and bring a dynamic that makes learning fun and interesting to the class room no robot ever could.

No.

A GOOD teacher can sense the best way to explain a concept to a class, can lead a productive and exciting class discussion (which is a far better way to learn), can adjust the lessons to fit a wide range of needs and stimuli, and can diversify teaching methods to meet different kids’ individual needs. All the actual traits of a good teacher who actually teaches, leads, guides and inspires can never be replicated by a robot.

Now, if you want students to just chew up information and spit them back at you, with no critical reasoning, no synthesis, no application, no connecting between ideas… just regurgitate data they’ve been fed…and just learn to pass a test, then sure. Robots can do that. Oh, wait? Isn’t that what the US school system is trying to do already?

I think that the emotional interaction between mentor and student plays a significant role in learning. Emotions are expressed by face and posture. Before a robot can teach as well as a good human teacher, it will need to add artificial emotions to its artificial intellect and present both in a fully articulated human form (I assume human’s need for human contact) and be able to read and adjust to the student’s emotional state or risk degradation of its communication.

While a robot’s knowledge base is broader than a human might have, they both communicate information appropriate to the student’s understanding. Even if technologically possible, what would be the advantage of artificial teachers over human teachers? I think that it is better and cheaper to increase the number of real teachers than to replace them with digital beings.

I think yes robot can be better teacher as it will provide full knowledge and will never skip lectures.