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He says school is supposed to train students for social function and creativity through literacy, core competencies, and lifelong learning.
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Literacy
China invented compass, paper, printmaking, and gunpowder centuries earlier, but Europe used those same inventions to transform society through exploration, literacy, revolution, and conquest.
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The Greek alphabet mattered because mass civic participation required an efficient writing system, replacing elite Linear B with a tool for broader literacy and knowledge-seeking.
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China invented compass, paper, printmaking, and gunpowder centuries earlier, but Europe used those same inventions to transform society through exploration, literacy, revolution, and conquest.
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Direct access requires literacy and education, which helps explain why early Protestantism appeals to an aspirational middle class with some means.
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The printing press allowed mass Bible reading and self-education, making Protestants more literate and educated as a religious requirement.
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The printing press produces a revolution of literacy and knowledge by rapidly multiplying books and democratizing access to Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and major Renaissance thinkers.
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China is unique in Jiang's telling because it made literacy harder over time, turning literary Chinese into a bureaucratic rent-seeking language.
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Judaism's strengths are its deep historical literature and its demand that Jews become people of the book, which Jiang links to later Jewish prominence in learned professions.
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"okay so welcome back to game theory and um as i discussed last class our goal is able to is to use game theory..."
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"...as to be creative right okay so the goals are basically literacy all right which means reading and writing this is the primary purpose..."
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"...fact they make you hate learning okay so let's look at literacy today in most schools you're not required to read books in fact..."
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"so as a citizen you were required to speak in front of others and as a result you even though you could be a..."
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"incorporated they created a new system called the alphabet which is the same system we use today because it's so effective okay so let..."
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"more efficient right and so now um you can create new words this is the word now for mon soon because all you're doing..."
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"...to learn okay so now you have the alphabet which increases literacy and learning throughout the greek world for entertainment what they did was..."
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"...right? Paper and printmaking, what does it do? It creates universal literacy. Everyone in Europe is now able to read and write because of..."
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"...And what is their source of power? It's the monopoly over literacy and knowledge production, right? So they didn't want to make it possible..."
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"...right so then with Direct Access you are forced to have literacy okay you are forced to educate yourself alright and this is a..."
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"...The first thing is the printing press, which allowed for mass literacy and education. Now everyone could read the Bible. Before, you couldn't do..."
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"...in Germany. And the printing press, it marks a revolution of literacy in Europe. This is a picture of what a printing shop looks..."
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School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
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The Vikings do not look important because they left fewer books.
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