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In Homer's historical moment, poets, prophets, and teachers perform the same function: accessing universal truth and spreading it through words that construct civilization.
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In Homer's historical moment, poets, prophets, and teachers perform the same function: accessing universal truth and spreading it through words that construct civilization.
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In Jiang's ranking, parents matter because they pay and can create trouble; teachers matter because they implement the rules; government and colleges often care only that the school produces no problems or paying students.
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He portrays teachers and administrators as workers trying to get by: teachers minimize effort, while administrators sell the school by giving parents what they want.
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He argues that excellent schools arise when a society is energetic, open, and cohesive enough to invest in every child's future and make teaching high-status, autonomous work.
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"...Okay? So in this time in history, poets are prophets are teachers. These are the same function."
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"Okay? Where you're accessing the truth of the universe and you're spreading this truth through words that enable the construction of civilization. And we..."
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"...the game they play. All right? So, you have students, parents, teachers, leaders, school administrators, and then the colleges. Okay? Another thing that you..."
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"...So, the most important are the parents. And you have the teachers. Why? Because the teachers are the ones who are implementing the rules..."
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"...Okay? So, these are the three major players. The parents, the teachers, administrators, students, government, colleges. They are in this game. They don't really..."
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"Then the teachers. Teachers are really simple. Because teachers do this job. And for them, the priority is to do as little work as..."
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"This is a job for them. They also just want to get by. Okay? They're not trying to build the best school possible. They're..."
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"...what you do is you have your best and brightest become teachers."
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"...the best one, I'm just talking about like an average school, teachers felt respected. They believed they had the responsibility to train the young...."
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