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Jiang argues that students will only truly understand Dante if they study him so they can later teach or share him with someone they really love, as an act of love.
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Teaching Dante
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And the trick is this. Okay? It is to learn Dante. So that you... May teach it as an act of love."
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Jiang says he began reading the Divine Comedy about four years before this lecture and initially understood almost nothing, with long periods of confusion and frustration that were not solved by watching explanatory videos online.
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"And the trick is this. Okay? It is to learn Dante. So that you... May teach it as an act of love."
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"So, this is the key. If you truly want to understand Dante, you have to read and learn Dante. And imagine that you're doing..."
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"You will truly understand Dante. Okay? So, these are the two things I want you to keep in mind. Our mission here in this..."
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"I had no idea what I was reading. I mean, I started reading Divine Comedy about four years ago for the first time. I..."
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"So I'm like, oh, my God. I'm going to, I am going to be a complete idiot. Okay? But I really, really want to..."
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"...uh what are you doing now and she says oh i'm teaching dante at harvard or or yale okay what do i do now..."
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"...located, okay? I think poetry is universal. The entire point of teaching Dante in Beijing in the year 2026 to mostly Chinese students, from..."
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"...then yeah and that's my mission okay this is why i'm teaching dante right now it's part of a larger mission to spread dante..."
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"...two. Number three then is what then is the point of teaching Dante?"
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"...will continue to teach. Two weeks from now, I will be teaching Dante. I'll be live -streaming Dante to a global audience. And after..."
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"...I don't know that you're now teaching at Harvard and you're teaching Dante, but you come back, and I'm still here after 20 years,..."
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"...taught Dante for three years now. This is my third time teaching Dante, and what's amazing about it is that all students love Dante,..."
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