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He describes his pedagogical project as presenting minority interpretive frames for students to work through themselves rather than delivering settled scholarship.
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He describes his pedagogical project as presenting minority interpretive frames for students to work through themselves rather than delivering settled scholarship.
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The class is not meant to certify that students have mastered the great books, but to begin a lifetime of entering them line by line.
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Jiang says the Great Books literally allow readers to connect and talk to God itself.
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In Jiang's account, the 2008 South China program began from replacing memorization and performative activities with seminar discussion, real reading, student-run business practice, and doing rather than merely talking.
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He says books are alive like people and that his distinctive reading ability is to enter the soul of an author, which is how he believes he understands figures such as Jacob Frank.
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Jiang says Plato's move of dialogue onto the page created reason and reflection by freeing the reader from the crowd and actor emotions and allowing lifelong return to the words.
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"...for you to explore by yourself, um, emphatically, so in your reading of paradise laws, an allegory of necessity of transgression for the sake..."
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"And he's actually right in that I am offering you a very, um, Minority interpretation of paradise loss. Why I'm doing so will be..."
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"...the divine comedy we will spend the rest of the semester Reading the divine comedy. It's not something you can read by yourself. There's..."
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"Okay, so we read the my comedy line by line And we'll try to really understand it but again, the point of this class..."
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"Your mind is an antenna, okay? Your mind is an antenna to the universe, right? So when you read the Iliad, it's as though..."
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"in school so i was hired in 2008 to go to xinjiang in south china and help the school shouldn't middle school build in..."
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"...their time memorizing s t word lists okay they were not reading they were not writing they were just memorizing words and the other..."
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"...books and read i wanted to teach students the joy of reading um and then in terms of activities i didn't want students to..."
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"...people to read it 100 years from now okay I love reading books I love books books to me are just as alive as..."
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"...able to create really interesting content for everyone so I love reading I love writing if I'm gonna produce a book and I'm gonna..."
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"...the play and he transported onto the page. But now, you're reading it by yourself, and you have the benefit of time, okay?"
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"And so, this creates a capacity for reason and reflection, okay? You can sort of reason out if the words make sense to you...."
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