Mom and American: a big competition in education

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, such as Stone strokes, has sparked a firestorm in both the US and Canada over the discussion of "What is the best way for Chinese moms and North American moms to educate their children". The author of the article, Amy Chua, is a Chinese-American and is now a professor at Yale Law School. She published a book called "Tiger Mother's Battle Carol", published in the Wall Street Journal article is a summary of the book, but the title of the article is more eye-catching: "Why Chinese mother is more superior?" "The high standards and strict requirements of Chinese mother Cai in the article tells the successful experience of educating her daughter, that is, high standards, strict requirements, such as not to go out on a date, not to watch TV, play computer, can only work hard piano and violin, in addition to drama and sports, each subject must be No.1 Under its strict supervision, two daughters were outstanding: the older daughter successfully stepped into Carnegie Hall to perform the piano, and her little daughter excelled. Professor Cai attributed his daughter's success to his "Chinese mother" education.　　At the same time, she criticized the Western mother too much attention to the child's self-esteem, blindly encourage praise, rarely pointed to shortcomings and severe criticism. Six adults agree that strict discipline is published, causing two distinct repercussions. Online polls show that up to 60.7% of people agree with Amy Chua's Oriental style of education, both Chinese and white. The Canadian columnist, Magritte, wrote in The Globe and Mail that Lang's words were quoted as evidence: The father and mother repeatedly stressed that to be the first place, "Striving for the best" became his childhood goal. The article points out that it is the father's strict requirements to achieve Lang's genius. In fact, the statistics of the United States and Canada show that although the overseas Chinese make up only 5% of the population of the United States, the proportion of Chinese students in the famous Ivy League universities is more than 20%. In Canada's most famous University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia, the proportion of Chinese students is more than 1/3.　　Coincidentally, the United States "Intel Science Award" (formerly known as the "Westinghouse Science Award") this month 12th announced the 2010-year award list, among the 300 finalists, even hundreds of Chinese students were selected, thus becoming a "Chinese mother-style" education success is another evidence. Opponents argue that bad innovation is, of course, no shortage. Many Chinese mothers have pointed out that Professor Cai's way of teaching is so harsh and cruel that Chinese mothers will not be so unreasonable in disciplining their children. They thought that Professor Cai could not represent the Chinese mother, and that the contemporary Chinese mothers and mothers were seldom as cruel as Professor Cai, who were not only quite tolerant, but even spoiled. Another Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail, published a long article pointing out "the failure of Chinese mothers". The author, named Solomon, cited two examples: In the past 100 years, only 10 Chinese scientists have won the Nobel Prize for Science, while the United States has won 300 Nobel Prize for science, while fewer Jews have received the prize, that is, it only accounts for 1% of the world's population, Has won a 25% share of the Nobel Prize for science. AgainFrom the field of military technology development, China also fell behind the United States and Russia.　　These are the manifestations of lack of creativity. I remember interviewing the American painter Dingshaoguan years ago, he said: "When teaching in the United States, he found that Chinese students are far better than American students in basic skills, but lost in the rules, lack of imagination and innovation." The problem of American students is the opposite, in the lack of basic skills, want to inventive, a different. He nail the cultural and psychological differences between China and the west.