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The illusion of freedom can extract more value than direct slavery because people work harder when they believe they control their lives or own equity.
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Equity
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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Dutch equity shares turned war finance into self-interest: investing in the company gave ordinary people a reason to support the anti-Spanish struggle.
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Jiang wants education to become more like modern medicine: a rigorous system of protocols that still allows individualized feedback and improvement across demographics.
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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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He says the three major failure zones of edtech are motivation, equity, and creativity.
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He argues that from 1949 to 1999 China focused heavily on equity and literacy by sending well-educated urban teachers into rural areas, and that this long campaign produced major dividends.
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His third lesson is to focus on equity and marginalized communities, because that improves outcomes for vulnerable children and forces good teachers to deepen their pedagogy.
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Jiang says China focused on equity especially well from 1949 to 1999, though less well now.
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"analogy I like to you use is that you look at medicine about 20 years ago it very much was an art it was..."
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"I am a beneficiary of what we call the meritocracy, right? I worked hard, my IQ was very high, I did well on tests...."
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"So challenging us to design a more equitable system for everybody."
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"...all the time, okay? over their lives. Another safe freedom is equity, right? Equity. So think of a company where I might give you..."
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"...to do that is to incentivize them by giving them shares, equity, in a company."
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"...create a middle class in Holland. So the first issue is equity, okay? But also, if you think about it, this is actually a..."
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"...areas where EdTech has failed us is in terms of motivation, equity and creativity, right? So motivation is that to be great learners, students..."
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"we connect rural students with urban teachers then rural teachers then the learning outcomes of these rural kids will increase greatly but that's not..."
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"...so um from 1949 to 1999 there's a heavy focus on equity issues in in china meaning that a lot of really well educated..."
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"...third, and I think most important lesson is to focus on equity issues."
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"...a better investment. And also, what happens if you do create equity is that your school system becomes more vibrant, and more creative. How..."
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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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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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The hosts begin by replaying Jiang's earlier prediction that Trump would win, the United States would fight Iran, and America would lose.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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