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He says the Library of Alexandria systemizes Greek knowledge into textbooks and functions as a university-like tool of empire, not merely education.
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University
Jiang presents the Yale Halloween email incident as a conflict between safe space, which prioritizes avoiding offense, and free space, which treats experimentation, mistakes, and hurt feelings as part of education.
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Universities are diagnosed as temples for comfortable priests; true knowledge is found in the ordinary, mundane world with suffering people.
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Jiang presents the Yale Halloween email incident as a conflict between safe space, which prioritizes avoiding offense, and free space, which treats experimentation, mistakes, and hurt feelings as part of education.
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He argues that the student demand for comfort turns the professor into a service worker whose job is to make students feel at home, which defeats the point of university.
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Jiang lists three standard explanations for the Yale-style confrontation: protected parenting, consumer/customer logic in universities, and ideological training about racism and privilege.
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Jiang's main explanation is that universities became bureaucracies: instead of teaching and research, they promote administrators who want salaries, offices, and self-justifying power.
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Jiang says UCSD-style university bloat is rent-seeking: senior management, deans, administrators, and managers surge while teaching investment falls.
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Jiang presents rising executive pay and bankrupt private universities as signs that administrators can extract while institutions fail.
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"...be taught throughout the world okay so this is really a university um to show you how wealthy the Egyptians are the uh when..."
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"...so what's really important for us to understand is that a university is not really about education it's not really about literacy culture it's..."
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"...is a radical idea but it's very true you go to university not to learn how to think but to fall into ignorance okay..."
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"...in the mundane with ordinary people that's where God is okay universities are constructed to be away from God they are temples for the..."
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"...talk about an incident that happened in October 2015 at Yale University. What happened was this Halloween is coming up and then Halloween people..."
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"...writes an email and says that she didn't agree with the university email she says that a university is a place for you to..."
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"happening so i want to show you another video and this video is kind of crazy okay this video as your position as a..."
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"...if you think about it that defeats the entire point of university so again i'm not saying who's right i'm not saying who's wrong..."
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"...explanation is the idea of a consumerist mentality so in a university the idea is that the students are consumers their customers and the..."
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"...the third explanation is ideological so the idea is that at universities universities are overrun by the left -wing professors who teach students that..."
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"...will show you is that this is not just true for universities it's true for every major organization in America and in the Western..."
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"...happening? well again the idea of bureaucracy so this is the university of california san diego this is student enrollment okay so you can..."
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