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Jiang says Romans were anti-creative and took the idea of eternity from Egypt, which he plans to address in the next class.
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Anti Creativity
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He describes the ordinary Chinese classroom as anti-creative because cultural habits inhibit autonomy and agency.
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Jiang argues that top academic students may be harder to teach than weak students because praise and easy rewards can make them closed-minded, stubborn, and anti-creative.
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"I've been in China for the past 20 years, and I've been thinking very deeply about how to make the society more creative. And..."
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"the students in your school I place a huge emphasis on growth mindset so I don't really care about the results I care about..."
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"they basically develop a very kind of productive set of values so for example they tend to focus on easy tasks which gives them..."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions? One last point is this. Okay? The Romans were like the most non -creative people in the..."
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"...this country is uniquely set up for, for anti -change for anti -creativity. Um, so maybe these 30, 40 years, there's been tremendous economic..."
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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