The responsibility for maintaining and developing competence one has acquired and cultivated at school, within the family, or in the local community lies with the individual. This may seem harsh, but nobody else has a responsibility for one's life.

Rather than diving directly into pedagogy and the role of schools, this text takes a different approach. Pedagogy and its renewal will be the theme of a later text. This text starts from the premise of school as a safe place to be, as well as a space where focus is entirely on learning. This applies at all levels within the school system.

Something we don’t talk about openly is the needs of children with special requirements. Children with a wide range of challenges that manifest in different ways. Some challenges are purely physical or motor-related, others are, from society’s perspective, mental or cognitive challenges. To a large extent, these children are integrated into regular classes alongside children deemed more typical. If we can afford it, children with special needs attending a mainstream class have a support person assigned to them. However, this is not always the case; the class teacher, who already has too many children in the class, is expected to provide the extra support needed.

The first part of the title may sound frightening, right? But perhaps it is not entirely misleading considering how the school as an institution functions. Quite strict regarding what age one starts and in which classes one goes when a certain age is reached. A static structure in a world that is increasingly becoming more dynamic and complicated..

We live in a time when the majority of humanity, or at least a large part, lives in a world based on Charles Darwin's principles. Or perhaps according to the way that has been highlighted as his principles. The strong and the best are the ones who get to pass on their genes. Competition is the leading method, which also applies to the view of business, the extraction of natural resources, the self-image of countries, and more.

Is it a good thing to let the development of artificial intelligence continue without any discussions of both the benefits but also the more dark side of the systems developed today?