I can understand the rationale behind sending a robbot to school, or whatever other environment where it can interact with human and put AI to the test. Programming a robbot would not be enough if it cannot make sense of all the info stored in its systems.
It would be like asking a kid from a rural, isolated area to just read from the Encyclopedia Britannica. S/He wil surely learn a lot of facts, but will know nothing about what those facts mean for people or what others make of them.
It is a disturbing thought, though. I always wonder how many millions go into these kinds of experiments and what better use that money could have been put to.
We do not need to accelerate the dystopia that has been prophesized by so many sci-fi writers.