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Jiang affirms that memory naturally privileges what carries emotional value, while brute memorization is needed to retain disconnected facts.
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Memorization
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Two types where there is one linked to emotions and one like only to knowledge, but it's right, it's harder to remember it."
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The Aeneid is propaganda and brainwashing because memorizing the poem makes the student travel Aeneas's path from human feeling to robotic obedience.
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Jiang says the power of the Aeneid is that even if readers know what is happening, memorized poetry can transform them into the hero's obedient pattern.
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Jiang says the Greek education system was simple because it centered on memorizing the Iliad.
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Memorizing the Iliad teaches how to make a great speech because it trains impact, memorability, and the capacity to impress oneself onto others.
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Jiang models math education as forced formula memorization that makes people stupid because it cannot be tested against reality like philosophy or teaching can.
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Jiang says Athenian theaters were designed for resonance, performers had to project slowly, and audiences memorized lines, making performance both audible and participatory.
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Chinese classrooms inhibit creativity through teacher control, obedience, result fixation, memorization, and stigma against mistakes.
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"Two types where there is one linked to emotions and one like only to knowledge, but it's right, it's harder to remember it."
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"Okay, yeah, exactly, okay? And because there's no recall also, then it's just hard to remember it. Yes. If you learn math and you..."
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"...values. You remember what has emotional value unless you use brute memorization to remember useless facts, like mathematics, okay? And the entire point is..."
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"So teachers are in complete control, and they demand obedience and conformity from students. That's the first problem. Second problem is that there isn't..."
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"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..."
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"And I have always been opposed to that. And so I've been slowly trying to get kids to read books and to act out..."
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"...beginning is to basically coax them out of their addiction to memorization and move them towards a new way of thinking in the classroom,..."
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"But if you're able to do that, you're able to do a lot of things. And I think that's what I need to do...."
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"it's addictive it's just addictive as playing video games right this with this test system in place there are students as you say who..."
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"Look, look. I know this sounds strange, but there is a difference between facts and truth, right? Facts are what can be independently verified..."
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"He is now the perfect soldier. And that's why Virgil wrote the Aenead. Because it is a piece of propaganda. It's a piece of..."
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"Drawing pictures for you to see. Okay? Metaphors. Connections. Okay? Metaphors is what we call connections. And connections are things. They're things that help..."
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