--- title: I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child – fast.ai description: A fast.ai co-founder argues against the over-quantification of education, drawing parallels between the failures of standardized testing (No Child Left Behind,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-a-learning-dashboard-for-my-child-fast-ai-tuex8hxks twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child – fast.ai | daily.dev og:description: A fast.ai co-founder argues against the over-quantification of education, drawing parallels between the failures of standardized testing (No Child Left Behind,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-don-t-want-a-learning-dashboard-for-my-child-fast-ai-tuex8hxks og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TuEx8hXKS.png og:image:alt: I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child – fast.ai og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child – fast.ai **[fast.ai](https://daily.dev/sources/fastai)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A fast.ai co-founder argues against the over-quantification of education, drawing parallels between the failures of standardized testing (No Child Left Behind, Texas Miracle) and many AI ed-tech products. The post critiques how decomposing learning into measurable, discrete skills — whether in analog curricula or AI dashboards — erodes intrinsic motivation, human relationships, and holistic development. It invokes Goodhart's Law to explain why optimizing metrics in education backfires, and advocates for approaches that center human connection, creativity, and genuine engagement over trackable proficiencies. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Fei-Fei Li: the real risk of AI in classrooms is students who stop wanting to learn](https://daily.dev/posts/fei-fei-li-the-real-risk-of-ai-in-classrooms-is-students-who-stop-wanting-to-learn-kmnxd9x3p) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Andrej Karpathy on X: "A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights: 1. 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