DeepSeek来了，比AI写作业更可怕的，是孩子不会提问！

Teaching academic writing at a Shanghai university, Dr Xiaoyun Peng encouraged her students to use GPT, on the view that a paper's value lies in the question it asks rather than in its grammar. With DeepSeek putting AI within everyone's reach, teachers began to fear that students would outsource their assignments. She argues the fear is misplaced: the real deficit is that students cannot identify a question worth asking. Asked what interests them, most fall silent. She traces her own philosophical formation to her grandfather's funeral, where she found herself wondering not about death but about why people mourned him, a question about the relation between moral standing and happiness. Her prescription for schooling in the AI era: shift from acquiring answers to forming questions, from theory to experience, and from single metrics to open enquiry.