Jiang's name for the motive structure oriented toward tests, money, and immediate instrumental rewards that crowds out empathy and creativity.
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utilitarian short-term center
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...done a lot of experiments to show that people have two centers. There's the altruistic creative center and there's another utilitarian short -term center."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...done a lot of experiments to show that people have two centers. There's the altruistic creative center and there's another utilitarian short -term center."
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"...done a lot of experiments to show that people have two centers. There's the altruistic creative center and there's another utilitarian short -term center."
"...another way of saying this is that, you know, these two centers are mutually exclusive. You can choose to tell students, okay, you're in..."
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Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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