He frames his teaching as an exploratory inquiry rather than delivery of settled answers, saying he teaches by asking questions and expanding provisional assumptions into a wider understanding of the world.
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Jiang argues that every understanding of history is really an analytical model with embedded values and assumptions.
Jiang says travel is crucial because it breaks mental habits and forces a person to challenge assumptions through contact with unfamiliar people and ways of life.
Jiang argues historical models contain embedded values and assumptions, and those hidden assumptions generate the predictions a model will make.
Jiang argues that educational conferences and debates keep recycling the same assumptions because core slogans such as well-being and creativity are not rigorously defined or tested.
He says AI can provide real-time data and evidence that force educators to question their assumptions.
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"...not how it works, okay? I myself am working with certain assumptions, I'm expanding it outwards in order to form a more general understanding..."
"...understanding of how the world works. There are values, there are assumptions embedded in your model. And because it's an analytical model, it has..."
"...to travel a lot because the process of traveling challenges your assumptions about the world. Um, the most, the hardest thing to do is..."
"You have certain assumptions and you, you apply the assumptions, assumptions to everything when you travel, when you meet new people, you're forced to..."
"...we can make the prediction model, based on those values and assumptions, to then get all the truth. Now, the idea is that, in..."
"...time of day but you have to have a lot of assumptions assumptions. And we have a lot of beliefs. And we don't actually..."
"...provide real time data and evidence for us to question these assumptions. So let me give you an example of this. Okay, so what..."
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