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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...by making it by testing it right like you just add test anything it's gonna be terrible because you're not but because tests just..."
Jiang says tests force people to abandon imagination, whereas intuitive and imaginative reading of the Divine Comedy is the path to true understanding and transcendence.
Jiang says logic matters in high school because it is tied to tests, grades, and institutional evaluation rather than to the whole of reality.
He says teachers genuinely want the best for students but still double down on test training because success in the system is measured by exam performance and they fear students will fall behind otherwise.
He says East Asian education is organized around outcomes and test performance rather than real learning, creativity, or giving students room to make mistakes.
He argues that both Chinese exam culture and American market scandals reflect the same larger problem: materialistic ends like money and tests reduce empathy.
"...by making it by testing it right like you just add test anything it's gonna be terrible because you're not but because tests just..."
"...in high school, logic does matter because you have to take tests, okay? But that's the point of logic, to take tests and to..."
"...need to get their kids to focus on doing well on tests, on learning subject matter well, and on being able to regurgitate it..."
"...emphasis on outcomes there's a very utilitarian mentality so Asians love tests if you look at the PSAP but not just the PSAP you..."
"...is our sort of increasing focus on materialistic ends, money and tests. And so, you know, our school is a clear example of this,..."
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...
A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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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