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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
He claims American colleges will take international students primarily because they can pay, even if the admissions rhetoric says they seek passion and curiosity.
Jiang says a second workaround would be U.S. colleges opening larger operations in China and charging dollar tuition there at a lower total cost to Chinese families.
Jiang says young people are increasingly rejecting school and formal authority, while universities continue taking tuition even as their social legitimacy declines.
"Colleges, again, just want the money. Okay? That's all they care about. If you're willing to go to American college and pay, how much..."
"...colleges in a shop in China. They will charge U.S. dollar tuition, but it'll be a lot cheaper experience for Chinese students. So I..."
"Yeah. So what we're seeing in the Western world is a crisis of faith and authority, right? The sort of rejection of expertise and..."
"...don't want to go to school but universities uh want the tuition so they're perfectly willing to let the kids not go to school..."
"...in selling um credentials do you guys know you increase the tuition every year no"
"...just like, they want you to come in and pay the tuition, okay?"
"...people in America. This is actually a more stark graph. Where tuition has gone way up, but wages have stayed pretty stagnant. Okay? And..."
"...have to go for this, high school. So, you're here, paying tuition, and you're paying rent. Does that make sense? You're not here, in..."
Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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