It's Still Racism: WSJ's "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior"

Traumatizing? Where in my post did you get that idea? Praise will come easily, WHEN THEY ARE DESERVED. Many things are forced, not the least of which is playing an instrument. Many kids would prefer not to go to school. Would you prefer if we didn't force them in that regards as well? If not, where do you draw the line? Where do you stop? Sounds like a slippery slope to me.

Believe it or not, it's the parents' JOB to prepare the child for the future. If you can't carry out that basic duty, don't have a child.

Now I found that summary amusing. By abuse, I'm assuming you mean physical abuse. That isn't a problem with most Chinese families. It is in fact those non-disciplinarian children (especially those inner city ones) that have that problem. In fact, forget about just physical abuse, them Chinamen seem to have very low brushes with the law in EVERY REGARD. It is yet another one of those observations of yours (aside from 60's individualism) that doesn't seem to fit with the facts.

Now of course, I haven't proven with certainty that the Chinese method lowers those risks, so how about we just say the Chinese method is highly correlated with career success and good social citizenship?

Chuckles. I got news for you. Sooner or later, you're gonna have to square with the fact that you/your child may be worthless. You won't be able to follow him for the rest of his life. At some point he'll go out on his own where people WILL view him as worthless, should he not be prepared. He would only be so lucky if other people would bother tell him that he is. Most won't even waste their time on him.

The other fact of the matter is, embarrassment is a fantastic motivational tool. For example, a basketball team is more likely to play harder to prevent the embarrassment of being in the headlines the next day. Apparently when it comes to education, those fragile post 60's educators assume different.

In China, the students CANNOT expect privacy from their study results. Each test/major homework project will have to be signed by the parents and returned to the teacher, ensure proper communication of his performance. Supposed an elementary class of 50 performs below the teacher expectations on a test (suppose she expected 5 100's, 4 99's, etc but only got 1 100 and 3 99's), she is perfectly willing and capable to read out the scores of star pupils who were expected to get 100 but didn't in front of the whole class. Those students that failed...

Aside from increase competition, know what those pupils learnt? I better *****ing do well.