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12 timestamped hits 8 source readings 2 extracted notes Newest source: 2026-05-18, day precision Aliases: best-student

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Best Students

A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in my students and that's why I don't really prioritize the best students I mean here in China the best students are are giving..."

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in my students and that's why I don't really prioritize the best students I mean here in China the best students are are giving..."

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Key Notes

Classroom diagnosis on 2026-04-05.

diagnosis

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.

Student diagnosis on 2026-04-05.

diagnosis

He says the best students often lack empathy because they rarely learn to see problems from perspectives unlike their own.

Timestamped Evidence

Creativity Is A Scientific Rebellion

2026-04-05, day precision · Professor Jiang on teaching for creativity, agency, and empowerment @PredictiveHistory

Transcript

"...comfort zone and so I often have problems dealing with the best students I don't have any problems with the worst students because quite..."

Creativity Is A Scientific Rebellion

2026-04-05, day precision · Professor Jiang on teaching for creativity, agency, and empowerment @PredictiveHistory

Transcript

"...is able to access an elite education, not just the very best students. So that's something that I think we all have to work..."

The Bank That Made The Game

2026-01-22, day precision · Game Theory #6: The World's Bank

Transcript

"...the idea is that all over the British Empire, the very best students will be selected to go to Oxford where they become best..."

Relevant Lectures And Readings

The Immigration Game Is Rigged

2026-01-15, day precision · alias-match

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on immigration as a game: school success is not status, rule-following can become a trap, fertility and cohesion beat obedience, and America's open-society ideal begins as a settler...

When Bureaucracy Eats the Soul

2025-10-07, day precision · alias-match

Reading

Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...

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