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He concludes that schools reproduce this structure: rich schools emphasize freedom, creativity, and good teachers, while poor schools are the opposite because the system is set up for some to succeed and others to fail.
He says Chinese schools in the 1980s were better in part because teachers were respected, felt responsibility for the young, took joy in their work, and students faced less pressure while learning more.
Schools are first and foremost designed to control children, not educate them.
Schools arise, in Jiang's explanation, from the military need to create obedient mass soldiers who can be conscripted into gunpowder armies.
Jiang names schools, media, and entertainment or mass culture as modern institutions that create collective identity by transmitting a worldview.
Jiang says he does not want to spend the rest of his life as a YouTuber and instead wants to promote education reform globally, possibly by starting schools.
He says the next step is to translate online attention into real-world practice by starting schools, movements, and communities, with Malaysia as a promising site for education reform.
Jiang says the great books are designed to teach human beings what it means to be human, which is why every school should teach works like Homer, Dante, and Plato.
"...want to promote education reform around the world, possibly start up schools. And I think that Malaysia, like just observing your, your, um, your..."
"...can translate this into real -world practice, right? How to start schools. How to start movements. How to start communities. Because like, you know,..."
"And start communities where people can have like these deep discussions about faith. About spirituality. About geopolitics."
"...it means to be human. That's why I think that every school should teach the great books, including Homer, including Dante, including Plato."
"...from the world we live in today. Why do we have schools? Why do we have media? Why do we have the internet? And..."
"but yeah that's clearly what that is right so mystery schools right if you go back in history mr schools were just an opportunity..."
"And that's why the school, that's why the schools are the way they are. Okay? Schools for the rich are very different from, very..."
"...because then they feel respected. And if you do that, the schools are great. And guess what, guys? In China, in maybe the 1980s,..."
"...know, they same country clubs their kids go to the same schools so i think um i i don't remember the details but i..."
"...handiwork and all as well if you take children out of school you have to play by themselves whatever they want guess what they..."
"...And that's why you now have the invention of something called schools, okay? If you want to know where schools come from, it comes..."
"...society. Okay, so the first would be what? Exactly, thank you, schools, right? So public schools, you're here to learn about the history of..."
The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
Jiang starts with his own formation story: a bullied immigrant reader, Yale disillusionment, depression, poker, game theory, and then a predictive method that treats society as a game played by distinct personalities.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
Jiang's through-line is that American decline will not end in a peaceful handoff to China or Russia.
The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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