For years I have thought that, if I were a teacher, I would allow the use of any source material the student desired, as long as it was attributed fully and correctly. Even before generative AI it was possible to “out source” creative work to some distillation of another’s work. Generative AI merely makes that outsourcing friction-less.
The teacher’s role accordingly becomes more important in the age of AI, not less. A real teacher is not merely a distributor of content. A real teacher is an experienced guide in inquiry: someone who knows what the student has not yet seen, what distinctions must be made, what confusion needs exposing, and what question should come next. The best classroom is not a transfer of information from one container to another. It is a living act of thought. That is why seminar, disputation, laboratory, tutorial and serious conversation retain their force even when information itself becomes cheap.