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Premodern learning through mentorship, observation, and practice, contrasted with school credentials.
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apprenticeship
Premodern learning through mentorship, observation, and practice, contrasted with school credentials.
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Jiang argues that apprenticeship and direct experience produce competence more reliably than elite schooling, using medicine as the example.
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For most of human history, learning happened through practice, experience, and apprenticeship rather than lectures, tests, papers, and grades.
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Jiang argues that apprenticeship would produce better doctors than elite credential pipelines because practical work teaches better than school status.
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"guys the correct answer is brainwashing everything else is a lie okay all right what are you in the school you come to class..."
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"person's apprentice maybe the first year all you do is like wash the floor okay but you're going to observe the doctor and then..."
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"Brainwashing. Okay, guess what, guys. The correct answer is brainwashing. Everything else is a lie. Okay. All right. What are you doing in school?..."
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"Maybe in the first year, all you do is like wash the floor, okay? But you're going to observe the doctor, and then eventually..."
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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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