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He explicitly reframes Dante's lesson as: if you want ascent, you need God's grace but also talent and hard work, so humility alone is not enough.
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Hard work
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Jiang says Chinese education’s valuable lesson is respect for hard work and the understanding that growth may require sacrifice and painful hardship.
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"that matters that's why humility is important right be humble before god because whatever you do doesn't matter it's god's grace that matters right..."
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"...to emulate is that, you know, there's a real respect for hard work in China. And there's a real respect and understanding that to..."
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"...Yeah, I think it's just not really about the aspect of hard work. I think, yes, obviously you need to do work hard, but..."
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"...problem of the universities think that they earn their place by hard work but I also learn about educational philosophy and research we know..."
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"...and look at character and look at merit and look at hard work that's something i strongly believe in and it makes sense right..."
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"...vanderbilt disguised as entrepreneurs right they were poor and through their hard work through their merit they became billionaires and that was the um..."
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"...too hard to be hypocritical anymore it's just it's just too hard work right because like think about how much energy you need to..."
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"...don't want to do it because it's too expensive it's too hard work but the Chinese will do this okay so this is what..."
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"...world, what matters is family connections, family background, as opposed to hard work and talent. So I deeply admire Americans. And I have tremendous..."
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"...Because regardless of America's racist past. Americans have deep respect for hard work and for talent. America is the only country in the world..."
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"...thought at first that kids would feel this is so much hard work and this is so stressful because they're being asked to do..."
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"...here in China there's this belief among all Chinese that through hard work for education people's lives can change for the better there's this..."
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