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The hosts frame Chinese education as a tension between high test performance and criticism of rote pedagogy, Gaokao teaching, rigidity, hierarchy, and cheating.
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Chinese Education
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Jiang is an educator, writer, speaker, and a recognised expert in Chinese education. He's currently principal at a Beijing -based private high school and..."
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China education has three major goals: mass literacy/numeracy, nationwide political orthodoxy, and merit-oriented distribution of scarce education resources.
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Jiang says American emphasis on the individual, openness, and diverse discussion is valuable for Chinese schools to learn from.
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"Very positive reports from my friend Alison Friedman. Anyway, by wonderful coincidence, we actually will be talking about educational exchange among other aspects of..."
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"in the pedagogical system in China, and about the rampant cheating that may result from some of the above. So today we're delighted to..."
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"...objectives. The first major objective is to make sure that the Chinese education system is a good system. The second major objective is to..."
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"So the system is very good at indoctrinating a sort of political orthodoxy throughout the country. And the third major goal was basically to..."
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"And then we're going to kill your brain and it's because you can't sit still. But no one thinks, well, the kid can't stand..."
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"...Jiang is an educator, writer, speaker, and a recognised expert in Chinese education. He's currently principal at a Beijing -based private high school and..."
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"countries can learn from that big system that is Chinese education"
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"...at so then my understanding from what i know about the chinese education system but of course correct me if i'm wrong but then..."
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"...uh right now um i've been working all my life in chinese education in different capacities um i used to work as an administrator..."
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"...give a car car career example. Okay. I work in the Chinese education system, so so I see this all the time, but right..."
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"...think are needed. How would you explain the differences in the Chinese education system compared to the West? Because I assume both have their..."
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"...American dream. And these past 10 years, I work in the Chinese education system. These past 10 years, the Chinese government has been trying..."
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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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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Jiang defines Predictive History as a falsifiable historical method, then uses the interview to argue that Soleimani's assassination made a later U.S.-Iran war structurally legible, that Iran wins by luring America into ground commitment,...
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Jiang starts by explaining why China became the world's largest and most lucrative edtech market: educational scarcity, parental obsession, test-score clarity, and WeChat infrastructure.
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Jiang starts with what looks like praise for China's move online during COVID.
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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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