Using Swedish higher education and other charts, Jiang argues that teachers and secretaries do more real work for less pay while managers become more numerous and better paid.
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Professors
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...other in New York. Yeah. I want to talk to some professors and make some videos. Yeah. Where I try to make my arguments..."
Key Notes
He says managers not only do no work but impose unnecessary paperwork on professors, researchers, and teachers to justify management jobs.
He says he will probably visit North America in the fall for podcasts, deeper in-person discussion, and possible debates with professors who know the material so he can present his arguments more scholarlily.
Jiang says Chinese students placed into American classrooms after being shaped by the Chinese system often become socially alienated from professors and classmates.
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"...other in New York. Yeah. I want to talk to some professors and make some videos. Yeah. Where I try to make my arguments..."
"teaching has gone down the blue okay but look at this the red is administration so over the past from 1980 to today over..."
"...keep their jobs and in fact they pay themselves more the professors and the maintenance and the secretaries lose their jobs to cut costs..."
"...day but they expect others to do more work okay so professors researchers teachers they're doing more work because the managers are given more..."
"...and suddenly, in these American schools, in these American colleges, the professor wants them to ask questions, the professor wants them to stand out,..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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...
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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