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The Ivy analogy reframes Virgil’s reaction as recognizably human jealousy when a former student or admirer surpasses the master.
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Jiang treats Virgil's response as pedagogically suspicious because a teacher who says both 'the world is different now' and 'ask someone else' has not actually faced the contradiction being raised.
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Jiang reads Beatrice as an ideal teacher who welcomes doubt and challenge because real understanding comes through questioning rather than passive reception.
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Jiang says Homer remains mysterious: scholars disagree about whether Homer was one person or many, Greeks called Homer the teacher and father of their civilization, and Jiang will speculate about how one human mind built an entire universe of real people.
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He identifies himself first and foremost as a writer rather than a teacher and wants whatever he writes to stand the test of time and be read 100 years from now.
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True knowledge eventually requires leaving and even destroying one's teacher as an authority in order to discover one's own self.
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Jiang says he is not partisan or political in the Trump-saving-the-world sense; he sees himself as a teacher trying to help people think for themselves.
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Jiang says he runs the International Division, also teaches, and deliberately resists rigid role boundaries because the school wants everyone to contribute as part of a community.
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"okay and then and then what was your name okay ivy okay 20 years later we ivy and i run into each other um..."
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"that you didn't make it that far yeah i mean i think everyone would be a bit jealous right it's not like dante or..."
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"Yes. He really doesn't want Dante to slow down. And just get involved with this nonsense."
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"That authoritarian teacher is like, shut up and move on. Okay. Don't question me. I'm your teacher. Kind of just go shoot."
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"...respond the way that he or she wants, like, has your teacher responded?"
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"Okay, so this is very much a student -teacher relationship, right? Where Beatrice is the teacher and Dante is a student. And as the..."
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"...figure out what's going on. Because I see him as a teacher. You know, for the past few decades, he's gone out of his..."
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"I see myself as a teacher who's trying to teach people how to think for themselves. And I think that's something that David Icke..."
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"...as to who Homer is. The Greeks themselves call Homer the teacher. And they consider him the father of the civilization. So we know..."
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"...and foremost as a writer most people see me as a teacher but I'm first and foremost a writer and so I want to..."
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"so much when I read Jacob Frank I'm like I I understand how he thinks okay I'm not judging him okay he's an evil..."
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"when Zoroastrian had spoken these words he pointed out that hate and love are not the same thing as hate and love are not..."
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