Jiang argues that education is first and foremost exposure to great ideas, great books, and great thinkers, and that this exposure naturally helps students develop.
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Great Thinkers
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"...exposure. Yeah. It's about exposing students to great ideas, great books, great thinkers. When you do that, like it just works out perfectly. Okay...."
"...also mean a poet, right? So, someone like Homer or a great thinker to give you a new religion, okay? So, for example, the..."
"...got a bad rap. Sun Tzu, you know, a lot of great thinkers that revolutionized politics. Of course, Murray Rothbard, Bastiat, Ludwig von Mises,..."
"And the reason why is that... China never really produced a great thinker or a great book that captures the imagination. You know, when..."
"...They were created in a time of tremendous political upheaval when great thinkers have the space and the opportunity to express themselves freely. And..."
"...But not only Immanuel Kant, but you have also many other great thinkers, including Hannah Arendt, who was a Jewish philosopher. And who was..."
"...was not a very deep thinker okay himself was not a great thinker so i don't want to spend too much time on him..."
"...factors don't really matter unless you have a great poet a great thinker a great intellectual to create the spark to ignite your civilization..."
"We believe Aristotle is a great thinker, a great writer, but we have no evidence, no text to show us this is the case...."
"...and that's why China never really produced a Homer or a great thinker, okay? Does that make sense, right? And so this is going..."
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