AI Should Amplify Imagination, Not Replace It
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Nishant Chandra, Co-founder, Newton School, said “As AI transforms how knowledge is created and consumed, India’s opportunity lies in building education models that strengthen, not substitute, human curiosity. Research shows AI can improve learning outcomes by up to 40 percent, but creativity and problem framing still come uniquely from human experience. The focus must be on cultivating thinkers before engineers, students who question deeply, think contextually, and use AI as an amplifier of imagination rather than a replacement for it. The future of innovation will belong to those who make machines think with them, not for them. Education in the AI era must evolve from content delivery to capability building, integrating AI to train students to reason, critique, and create with machines, not depend on them. The most forward-thinking institutions are embedding AI into problem-solving frameworks where learners co-design and experiment alongside intelligent systems, preserving human agency by helping students translate intuition into computation and ethics into design. The goal is not to outpace technology but to outgrow it by shaping a generation that views AI as a collaborator in thought, not a shortcut to it.”
