Jiang says his hardest adolescent period was high school in Canada, where he faced daily racist bullying, academic collapse, abuse at home, and repeated suicidal thoughts.
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Adolescence
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Jiang says PISA only captures how fourteen-year-olds perform in school, an especially volatile age shaped by puberty and hormonal change.
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"Why face a lot of hardship? Hardships in my life. But I mean, like there are some distinct periods in my life when I..."
"So literally, you know, like when I was a child, I didn't think there was any hope in life. I was like, wait a..."
"Sure. My issues with the PISA are many. But the first issue is that the PISA test is a snapshot of the education system..."
"...simple language and a lot of themes that she writes about, adolescence, family. It's something that really resonates. And it's something that I think..."
"...dad and then was adopted by his mom's new husband in adolescence. And now, they're both dead. chunk of the internet was publicly"
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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