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His long-term ambition is to create a school specializing in liberal arts and humanities that builds the foundations for psychohistory.
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Liberal arts
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model
Jiang combines Homer, playwrights, and philosophers into a model of a new human mind: empathy and imagination, inner debate and perspective, reason and reflection.
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Jiang says liberal arts education transmitted the Greeks to later thinkers such as Kant, Hume, and Hegel, making Greek reading the common education of later great thinkers.
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Jiang says the seminar is aimed at students interested in liberal arts and humanities teaching, but the main point is to let anyone in the world read the Divine Comedy line by line alongside him.
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Jiang says he built China's first public-school international program on an American liberal-arts model, with an English library, seminar classes, and a daily newspaper, to create a space for individual agency.
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"...students, college students from around the country who are interested in liberal arts, who are interested in being like maybe a humanities professor to..."
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"...public school international program that was modeled off of a American liberal arts college. We had a 5,000 book English library. We had seminar..."
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"...a my own school that specializes in the teaching of the liberal arts of the humanities and build the foundations for psychohistory."
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"I want this school to be the best ever. I want this to be like Plato's Academy. I want this to be like the..."
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"...study all of them, this is what we call, ultimately, a liberal arts education. This is what we call, ultimately, a liberal arts education."
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"...And guess what? Our greatest thinkers came to us through the liberal arts. Our greatest thinkers came to us through the liberal arts. All..."
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"...went to Yale, the great thing about Yale is it's a liberal arts school, right? So they encourage you to take a wide spectrum..."
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"...It's all a scam. Doesn't matter what university you go to, liberal arts, Ivy League, state, it's all a scam. Doesn't matter what your..."
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"...um you know it was the first of its kind a liberal arts high school and it was a very innovative school and it..."
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"...It was very common, it's very common as part of a liberal arts education to study the speeches of Cicero. Okay, and Cicero is..."
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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Peter Limberg keeps pulling Jiang from method into metaphysics, from Protestant anxiety into secret societies, from Odessa and Iran into elite panic and digital control, until one governing claim comes into focus: power rules...
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Jiang explains the channel from the inside: a teacher leaving Beijing, watching Iran and Israel move toward world war, and trying to turn a student review archive into a new history that can explain...
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Rome does not hand Octavian power because he is the best general, the most charismatic speaker, or the obvious heir.
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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