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To: tejek who wrote (88305)	1/24/2011 2:16:31 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

When the kid said: American kids have a hard time with half an hour of practise, try three hours. There is a huge difference between educating your child and forcing them to excel (for your ego needs, no less). One can see a bit of this in the Jewish culture. I love Jews, seemed I was always dating a jewish girl in college and even lived with one platoncially in grad school. I know their culture well. One day I had a car full of my Jewish friends. All Jews talking about how much they hated undergraduate school. Because of how hard they had to work to keep straigth A's. Like the Japanese they push themselves to exceed because their culture demands it. And it drives them a bit crazy, all the stress and rules. Now two things are interesting about this: 1) Israel and Japan excel because they are the most highly educated people on earth. 2) Once they become educated they use what they learned for the rest of their lives. Regardless of the pain acheiving said information. These kids did it because their culture demanded it, like the Tiger moms; and it was brutal. But the same level of intellectual excellance can be acheived without the torture and psychological damage. Spare the rod and spoil the child (I use that metaphorically)is an outdated idea that needs to go the way of child sweatshops.