In this contribution I try to illustrate some of the most significant moments in the history of AI (Artificial Intelligence), imagining that they have been a series of subsequent stages in the development of the so called "Child Program." With this name Alan Turing - in Computing machinery and intelligence (1950) - described for the first time the idea of an algorithm "capable of being educated." After discussing Turing’s prophecy, I will present some milestones of research in AI considering that each is a piece of a "learning scheme" of extended intelligence, i.e. an intelligence ascribable not only to humans beings, but also to any subject able to support thinking functions. I propose that from the elements of this scheme it is possible to draw useful suggestions for human education in general. In the final part of the contribution, I will collect the elements into a synoptic vision, which I will call "the educational protocol of the extended intelligence." This will define the minimum requirements that a training course should possess in order to conduct a "child program" at the "adult program" stage.