116f. Socratic and Confucian mothers

This is a continuation of the series on Jin Li's book Cultural Foundations of Learning, East and West.

In this recording, we will see how mothers interact with their children in such a way as to promote their cultural worldview, which goes a long way to explaining how the culture is perpetuated. Interestingly, it is clear from the sample interactions that the children often do not know how to respond to the parent, and so have not yet learned the cultural mindset, so we get a real sense of attitudinal transmission going on through the interactions.

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