Talking in: Latin Out, Ai in – Is School Modernising to Death?

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Cicero or Chatbot? With the planned cut in Latin lessons in favour of AI and "Media and Democracy", the government is launching an educational debate with explosive power. Do young people today need primarily humanist education or digital skills? And is the school threatened with a false either or?

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The Austrian Ministry of Education recently proudly presented the "Plan Zukunft" (Future Plan): From the school year 2027/28, Latin will be shortened in the AHS upper level, for which new subjects such as "Informatics and Artificial Intelligence" as well as "Media and Democracy" will be added. The official justification is more modern, digital, life-oriented. Unofficially, the fight against law will probably be carried into schools. According to…