Jiang assigns visual-art homework because he wants students to see the Divine Comedy as a highly visual and imaginatively extreme poem rather than a merely textual artifact.
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Homework
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The exchange makes burden of proof itself part of the classroom dispute: the students demand evidence for Jiang's civilizational critique while Jiang treats the physics question as homework that should confirm his view.
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"Okay, stop. Okay. All right. So guys, um, for homework, not only do I want you to reread what we discussed today, but I..."
"major breakthrough maybe maybe we should talk to a physic physicist okay then guys go go home do do"
"you're making an extraordinary claim so if the burden of proof is upon you no no no i'm i'm telling"
"the homework okay tell me in the past 70 years what major theory in physics have we had no professor"
"...think uh you have to uh you have to do your homework before you make any comment thank you"
"...going to make you a better person, okay? So, again, the homework is to reread what we read and make sure you understand what's..."
"...and you guys what I want you guys to do for homework is think of this theory and come up with ideas or arguments..."
"...having an AI girlfriend or for helping you cheat on your homework. They are part of the control grid, right?"
"...the other third is would be in planning and in market homework now remember that Chinese teachers teachers actually teach very large classrooms they..."
"...my friends are playing outside and I need to do my homework, well, I'm going to stay home and do my homework. Okay? So..."
"you guys so guys um I did a lecture on homework today okay so I I don't like to prove myself but you two..."
"...this problem you can now create a great civilization that's not homework did okay homer showed us that this is the greatest problem in..."
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