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Another student answers that Italian schooling often teaches the Divine Comedy as grammar and testing rather than as imagination, which is why students can spend years on it and still hate it.
Jiang presents Beatrice's role as completed instruction rather than active assistance: Dante must now demonstrate that he has absorbed heaven's teachings without her help.
Jiang introduces the methodological reason for the exercise: build an analytical model of how the world works, make predictions, and test them against reality.
Jiang defines critical thinking as building analytical models, testing them against reality, and refining them based on what reality shows.
Jiang says predictions matter because they validate and test the analytical model in your head, letting you refine it over time.
Every test, including IQ, SAT, Gaokao, and PISA, fundamentally tests the ability to do well on that test.
Jiang argues early test scores are a poor basis for deciding a child's eventual adult performance, making the Chinese sorting system unfair.
Jiang argues that China first needs to be introduced to the concept of empathy itself, and that one way to do this is to show that removing pressure, hierarchy, and constant testing yields happier, more motivated, more creative, and more collaborative students.
"yeah uh yes well actually i was in italy in florence and or near florence and i've talked to people who studied the divine..."
"She cannot participate. She cannot help Dante. Dante is now by himself, okay? He now has to prove that he's absorbed the true teachings,..."
"I am wrong about this, okay. Like every day, just say I'm wrong about my assumptions about this. I'm wrong about my assumptions about..."
"...if this model works or not is by making predictions and testing it against reality."
"So that it's much more reflective and accurate, okay? Does that make sense? Okay? And that's how we try to think critically about the..."
"...the fact of the matter is that East Asia is a testing culture. High -stakes testing is fundamental and ingrained in the culture. It..."
"a very unfair system because, you know, the development trajectory of kids, of any adult, it's not a linear trajectory. You don't know how..."
"And you don't know how a kid is going to perform at age 18 based on his test scores at age six. So, it's..."
"...to show that if you remove Pressure and hierarchy and starts testing from the Chinese system You focus more on a culture of empathy..."
"Third is to emphasize evidence and logic as a way to, as a way to debate and also to offer specific feedback when, when,..."
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
A dated May 2024 election model: Biden's 2020 coalition weakens, the suburbs become the hinge, and Trump can win by turning Nikki Haley from enemy into evidence that he has changed.
Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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