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Jiang names schools, media, and entertainment or mass culture as modern institutions that create collective identity by transmitting a worldview.
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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.
"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,..."
"...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..."
"Entertainment, right? Mass culture. This includes, you know, TV shows. This includes movies, okay? This includes books. Does that make sense? So through these..."
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School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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