Glossary
The Yale-style formation Jiang says gave credentials and blind spots but did not explain recent political crises.
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elite education
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Jiang frames Chinese students' pursuit of English, U.S. dollars, and Western immigration as a historically constructed game rather than natural self-interest.
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Elite universities can train rigid thinking that inhibits empathy, curiosity, and psychological understanding; passionate self-taught historians may understand history better than credentialed academics.
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The Academy and Aristotle are presented as institutional channels that packaged, promoted, and spread Plato's influence through elite education and Greek culture.
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Jiang says elite schools such as Yale can produce a programmed liberal mindset; he cites his own 2016 TDS as evidence.
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Jiang says Harvard and Yale graduate authority-pleasers who believe ends justify means and lack moral conviction.
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He argues that future human development requires making school systems more democratic and accessible, so every student can access elite education.
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Jiang says elite education teaches people out of religion, but his later studies made him think religious and ancient-civilizational frameworks are indispensable rather than primitive residue.
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Jiang says his elite Yale education failed him because it could not prepare him to understand Trump's 2016 victory, COVID, or the Ukraine war.
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"what does the youth do look i completely agree with dave i think first of all the best thing about america the thing that..."
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"i had tds and the reason why is that you know um i went to yale i said at yale and so i have..."
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"about trump he did win democratically in 2016 in the republican um primary okay the the republicans ran a democracy whereas the democrats did..."
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"...I got a full scholarship to Yale College. And in my education career, I've become very skeptical about the meritocracy. I think that if..."
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"So challenging us to design a more equitable system for everybody."
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"...life, like two years ago, because I had a very classical education. And what an elite education does is it educates you out of..."
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"back to go by tepe and so where we what we what we're doing for the rest of this time it's hard for me..."
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"...English major at Yale. And so I had a very traditional elite education and, um, eventually I discovered that in life, this elite education...."
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"...a much more, um, coherent understanding of the world than the elite education. The elite education I received at Yale was very, um, it..."
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"You know, unfortunately, I think. That if you are educated in America, you know, I went to Yale, Yale, and so I know a..."
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"Yeah. I mean, like there's different skin color, but if you actually look at the ideas that they engage with in a classroom, it's..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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Jay Shapiro does not let Jiang hide inside the viral avatar.
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Kim Iversen brings Jiang on because the channel has become a prediction machine.
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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