tl;dr: A soon-to-be father and programmer grapples with education's purpose as AI threatens the "earn a living" justification that quietly anchored his worldview. Drawing on Neil Postman's The End of Education, he notes schools have outlasted repeated predictions of their demise (radio, MOOCs, etc.) because their real purposes are subtler than stated ones. His tentative conclusion: invent new purposes collaboratively with children rather than imposing them, since how we teach matters more than what.