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Jiang says reading Divine Comedy in English is a severe limitation because it prevents true literary analysis of diction, syntax, sound, and poetic form, so fully deciphering Dante requires reading him in Italian for oneself.
He opposes English teaching built around memorizing word lists and instead asks students to read books, act scenes, and write literary analysis.
"renaissance okay what makes the renaissance a revolution in human affairs is that as you say it celebrates the human spirit and how the..."
"This is a severe limitation because it prevents us from doing literary analysis. We can't study the words. We can't study the diction, the..."
"Yeah, and that would be great, but the point I'm trying to make is, unless you read it in Italian by yourself, you'll never..."
"So now I've returned to school leadership, but working at a principle level. So I have complete control over the curriculum. I am better..."
"...and to act out certain scenes in the book, to write literary analysis essays. And only in two weeks, we've seen students, their minds..."
"...points. Point number one is, last class, we appreciated how the literary analysis of divine comedy, how deep it is at a literary level...."
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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