If you’re comfortable with the rapid computerization of your education, don’t bother reading this.

But if you think human beings are still the best teachers, we have some alarming news for you.

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), taken by 200,000 business school applicants every year, will now be graded — at least partially — by a computer program called E-Rater.

Test-takers will type two essays directly into the computer, which will evaluate them on a six-point scale. A human (a revolutionary idea!) will also grade each essay, and if the mind and the machine differ by more than one point, the essays will be checked by another person.

Let’s get the advantages out of the way first, since there aren’t many. The computer is faster and doesn’t get fatigued, and graders can avoid slogging through pages of sloppy handwriting.

But this is really an insult to the intelligence of students. According to an article in Time Magazine, the computer will look for subject-verb agreement, good vocabulary and transitional phrases like “therefore.”

If you’ve ever used Microsoft Word 98, you’ll know that computers do a positively awful job of checking grammar, even simple stuff like “he is” and “you are.”

And the other two ingredients are the height of trivia. With E-Rater, it seems, business school admission will be determined by the ability to study a thesaurus and spew meaningless platitudes.

“Moreover, the inane capitalist tendencies of the free-market polity will ultimately foment civil disturbance; nevertheless, the quest for financial nirvana, i.e., accumulation of massive capital resources, will be a perpetual objective for future entrepreneurs.”

That’s one semicolon, two stuck-up conjunctions, oodles of high-falutin’ vocabulary and virtually no intelligence. There’s no doubt about it — this writer’s acceptance to business school is a sure thing.

“It’s not intended to judge a person’s creativity,” said the creator of a program similar to E-Rater.

No kidding.

So here’s a summary: Write an essay. Be bland and boring. Include quasi-intelligent fluff. Go to grad school. Get a desk job. Live in an earth-tone house and have 2.5 kids.

Don’t bother with enjoying yourself. Don’t put any personality into your education. Don’t learn anything besides the facts.

Looks like the education of the future is already here.

How exciting.