07/04/2026
How can you prepare your child for AI's disruption to the job market?
That question stopped me this week. Sigal Samuel, a senior reporter at Vox, published a piece that I haven't been able to shake since I read it.
She was responding to a question from a colleague who put it better than most people have. When he was growing up, the formula was simple: good grades, good school, good job. That pathway still exists, he said, but it's fraying in ways that make every decision about education feel like a shot in the dark. What skills will actually matter? What will your child learn today? Will what your child learns today have any bearing on a job market being reshaped by AI?
Nobody has a clear answer to that. Not the futurists, not the executives, not anyone.
But signal reaches back further than most people would expect for her answer. All the ways to Aristotle. A good education, she argues, was never really about job security. It is always about building character, honesty, courage, justice, and what Aristotle called phronesis, the ability to read a situation clearly and make a judgment call that actually fits it. That kind of wisdom matters more now than ever because the world these students are walking into will demand they know how to use AI well, but just as importantly, when not to.
Here's what stayed with me: AI removes friction. It makes everything faster and easier, but judgment only develops through friction, through having to reason, deliberate, and sit with hard problems. The most unusual person in the years ahead won't be the most technically skilled. It will be the one who never stops using their own mind.
That's the thread that runs through everything: our Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management is designed to build leadership that holds up under pressure, entrepreneurial thinking that doesn't wait for permission.
These students are in year 12. They chose to pursue this on their own time, on top of everything that the year already demands. Nobody told them to. They just understood something worth understanding early. The bamboo tree grows underground for years before anyone sees it. That's what I'm watching happen right here.
