The future of education
What makes learning worth doing when a machine can produce the answer? This question reaches well beyond the classroom.
Why I work on this
It is not only the way we teach that is changing, but the way we think about learning at all.
As AI takes on more work with words and numbers, I keep returning to what I call the death of logos: a challenge to how we understand learning and being human.
Questions about mortality, consciousness and our relationship with other kinds of minds belong in that conversation. I think studying animals and plants may teach us something that looking only at machines misses.
Education needs room for these questions throughout life. I want to explore what makes learning worthwhile and how we can help one another do it.
Where I work on it
- Academy of Critical Thinking. I co-founded the Academy and have trained thousands of people. Together we design training for teachers, schools and companies to fit what they need. Abroad, I deliver training myself.
- Debate. Competitive debater, coach and judge, later director of the Slovak Debate Association. Internationally: International Debate Education Association.
- Manifesto of a Curious Child. My talk and Chapter 5 of the book.
- Braindojos. www.braindojos.com
- Books. Poriadok v hlave with Linda Lančová (2022) and AI for Smart Humans.
In the media
- Kanárci Live @Divadlo Palace (feat. Martin Poliačik), Kanárci v síti #253, October 2026 (in Czech)
- Poliačik: Umělá inteligence nám z paměti bere aha momenty. Na sociálních sítích jsme zbožím, Český rozhlas Plus — Osobnost Plus, June 2025 (in Czech)
- Motivuje mě vytvářet lidem prostor pro hledání jejich vlastního štěstí, Deník N, April 2023 (in Czech)
- Zacyklili sme sa v potrebe neustále mať pravdu, SME — Rozhovory ZKH, December 2022 (in Slovak)
- Šlabikár kritického myslenia, Mozgová Atletika #10, June 2022 (in Slovak)
- Kritické myslenie pomáha aj v biznise, Diagnóza Podnikateľ #35, December 2022 (in Slovak)
- Deti nemajú poslúchať, ale rozmýšľať, zrušil by som prepadávanie, Aktuality.sk, April 2019 (in Slovak)
Where shall we take this?
Tell me what you would like to explore. If we have met, remind me where. I’ll reply personally. You can also write to hello@poliacik.ai.