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Jiang defines democracy as open and honest discussion about how citizens can be better.
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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normative
Jiang says American emphasis on the individual, openness, and diverse discussion is valuable for Chinese schools to learn from.
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Jiang says evidence, logic, and specific feedback are empathy practices because they keep discussion from collapsing into insults and train students to respond to ideas rather than attack people.
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"...that's what a democracy really is. It's an open and honest discussion about how we can be better. OK? And again, these three, Aeschylus,..."
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"...on the individual, there's a sort of openness and diversity of discussion in America. That's something that's also very valuable for the Chinese school..."
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"...easy for them. Even adults, it's very easy for a group discussion to degenerate into sort of, you know, I mean, like insults. And..."
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"...man named marco lombard and they engage in a debate a discussion okay that's it with nature free will and we as we explained..."
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"...this this map on the right so this was like our discussion before about psychology uh so it is still like quite vague but..."
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"Okay. This, this will be really important for tomorrow's discussion. All right. I'll see you ever tomorrow. Bye."
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"...pose two possible topics for us to come back to in discussion. One topic is the witches. What do you make of them? Because,..."
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"...can force self -reflection right so one way is who the discussion there but another way is for dreaming okay and what's another way..."
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"...you have improved a great deal, and I think that our discussion right now is very deep. If Dante were here, he would approve...."
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"...we were to share our stories more this would help the discussion but the constraint is that this is being um live stream and..."
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"Yeah. It's a great discussion, but you have the last word. Okay. Then we'll continue. Yes. Okay. Yes."
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"...experts on Dante already. So it will be a very lively discussion. Okay. So something, something that'll be really fun. Uh, so please come..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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