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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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Teachers
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...we've seen two major sources of opposition. The first is from teachers, because they don't want to lose their status and prestige in society...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...we've seen two major sources of opposition. The first is from teachers, because they don't want to lose their status and prestige in society...."
Key Notes
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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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Jiang says teachers and parents have blocked creativity reform: teachers fear losing status, while parents fear curriculum change will hurt their child in a zero-sum competition.
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Jiang's current reform strategy is to collect concrete classroom evidence that change is possible and beneficial, then use parents as the first persuasion target and teachers as the second.
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He argues that teachers are irreplaceable because education depends on a community of scholars that supports and motivates students in ways technology cannot replicate.
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Jiang's first lesson is that investing in teachers means support, mentorship, professional development, and community rather than simply paying them more.
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"...we've seen two major sources of opposition. The first is from teachers, because they don't want to lose their status and prestige in society...."
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"...parents. If you can convince parents, then you can slowly convince teachers. And so for the past few weeks, good, good, good. I've been..."
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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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"education, that technologists will come in and just replace teachers with robots, and we'll be stuck with this system of memorization and regurgitation. But..."
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Jiang's education argument begins with a narrow definition and ends with a democratic dream.
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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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School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
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Jiang starts by explaining why China became the world's largest and most lucrative edtech market: educational scarcity, parental obsession, test-score clarity, and WeChat infrastructure.
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Jiang starts from a harsh premise: students do not mainly fail because they lack content.
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The panel's strongest claim is that education reform does not fail first on money or technique.
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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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