Modern schooling creates artificial hierarchy by labeling students smart or stupid and routing them into different life outcomes.
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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He describes China as a competitive elitist system that sorts students from day one through feeder schools into top universities.
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"We human beings are all born with the capacity to learn anything if you wanted to learn it, right? If you want to be..."
"Right? So school is not a place to teach you how to learn. A school doesn't teach you knowledge. It doesn't do that. A..."
"Thinking about it off the top of my head, I would say the big difference is that in Canada, we're very focused on equity..."
"...this understanding. Okay? The first major problem with this is the sorting mechanism. Okay? Basically, why do we respond to different experiences with different..."
"...began making arrangements for the building of the Third Temple and sorting out genealogies of established new high priesthood."
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The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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