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Yale University professor of Chinese descent Amy Chua, published a book called “The Truth About Tiger Mom” ​​book caused a sensation in the United States. January 2011, the book was renamed “My mother, in the United States” in the Chinese market on sale.

“The Truth About Tiger Mom” ​​Amy Chua recorded strictly in the traditional Chinese education, tutoring experience of two daughters. The book lists the start of her daughter Amy Chua ten requirements:

(1) No night out;

(2) are not allowed to participate in the school’s team recreational activities;

(3) are not allowed to participate in school performance;

(4) did not attend school are not allowed to complain about performance;

(5) are not allowed to watch TV or play video games;

(6) are not allowed to arbitrarily choose extra-curricular activities;

(7) subjects are not allowed to have less than A;

(8) In addition to sports and drama, other subjects are not allowed to get the first;

(9) are not allowed to practice musical instruments other than piano and violin.

(10) are not allowed to practice the piano and violin.

“The Truth About Tiger Mom” ​​by “The Wall Street Journal,” “Times” and other media reports, the cause of the nation’s attention to its strict education and discussion, and gradually upgraded to global issues. Tiger mother called philosophy of education, has been growing concern, discussion and dissent.

1. British media evaluation: Chinese education “intensity” shock the world

January 8, 2011, “The Wall Street Journal” published a one pair of “The Truth About Tiger Mom” ​​book review, the subject was intentionally or unintentionally, the Eastern and Western education pulled the contest site “Why Chinese mother superior.” . However, this is not the first time the U.S. media to China Education and tense. The end of 2010, the first Chinese students to participate in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a Student Assessment, Shanghai has made all 34 students tested among the best in performance, which makes U.S. sit still. When the U.S. online magazine “stone book” that the contrast between the achievements of Sino-US young American lost its luster, while the British “Financial Times” quipped that China’s education, “strength” shocked the world. “The New York Times” quoted the Ministry of Education officials, the Reagan administration era 切斯特费恩 saying, which made him first the Soviet Union will have a satellite into space a sense of shock when the Americans.

2. Discuss the upgrade: education up to the economic

“Time” magazine text, “the true story of the tiger mother” wrote: with her razor-sharp pen, Amy Chua for parents throughout the United States we think the question is not what she called “losers”?

The article points out, the U.S. economy was surprisingly poor, economic growth of 2.6% to 9% unemployment rate was able to high; while there are 10% of China’s economic growth, each year more than 2,500 billion trade surplus with the United States; the economy is so, education also do so.

British media analysts said the intense reaction of the Americans, in fact, very different with the performance of Sino-US economic situation closely, since the Great Depression when the U.S. suffered the most serious economic decline, the
China is steadily on the path of economic growth, Chinese leaders seek to answer with, might as well go ask the mother tiger.

German media have also pointed out that if not because of growing concern of China’s economic miracle, not the United States fear China’s rise, the debate may soon died down. British “Economist” magazine concludes that China is now the U.S. epidemic of rise on the various “panic story”, the article advised Americans: the comparison of this educational approach rise to the height of countries is not appropriate.

3. Tiger Mom to clarify: book out of context

With the increasingly intense debate, on the cusp of Cai child has clarified many summaries are taken out of context caused controversy. Cai children stressed way of family education, such as the East in line with maternal love, understanding and participation by parents to help children grow up is certainly a happy life. Her children’s book is not a parent education guide, but her mother’s memoirs ten years. “The New York Times,” that this fact is she has been struggling to cope with criticism, from the initial position was forced to retreat.

4. Chinese Mother: worry about being “representative”

But the tiger mother’s remarks did not get recognized by Chinese mother, the famous returnees Hung on children’s behavior criticize Amy Chua was like “hell mother”, she said: “I know of you in China, the mother, no one will like her to treat a child, Miss Choi as law professors in this pretentious, can be regarded as a narcissistic. “Indeed, in China this supposed” mother tiger “inhabited by” barbarous kingdom “, many mothers have children do not buy Amy Chua the account.

5. Reflection: the education of children should be Chinese and Western

Accused the U.S. media scrambled, “Newsweek” is the U.S. efforts to pacify the mothers, the report said, even if the tiger mother who educated children score high, it does not mean that the country’s economy stronger, more creative people, social superior. China will not get Bill Gates, and, if qualified, or a tiger mother who would send their children to the United States read at Harvard.

Associate Professor of Communication University of China that Chen Kai, as in China, “winner takes all”, so the parents put too much pressure placed on their children. The United States was more concerned about the child’s quality of education, innovation and independence, children can have the freedom, and that this resulted in a child learning to relax too, the case of unsatisfactory results. U.S. education can be said that the two extremes of education, one is “too much criticism,” one is “too much praise,” and Chen Kai is right that the real synthesis of the two.

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