Plight of the Little Emperors

In discussions about raising children in different cultures between Chinese and Western families, Chinese mothers and Western mothers raise their children differently from each other. Amy Chua, in her essay entitled “How Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” argues that Chinese mothers are extremely more strict and harsh when it comes to parenting their children’s self-esteem while Chinese mothers do not while they assume “strength, not fragility” from their children. She also believes that it is necessary to limit the children in their daily lives in order to achieve greatness and honor to their family. Amy Chua is led to this conclusion due to research and examples of her own life as a Chinese daughter as well. My own view on the issue is that Chinese

Over a period of year’s education has grown to be very important to many cultures all over the world. At one time in many cultures children were only taught what was necessary to get along and sometimes only children of the wealthy would be taught. China’s government

I think that the test they are doing to show if the kids are going the have a good future or bad is not a good test because just cause they failed a little test doesn’t mean that their future is all over.

Amy Chua has two daughters, to which she raised in a traditional Chinese way, strict. Very strict. Her daughters weren’t allowed sleepovers, television, arts and crafts, no ability to express their minds creatively. With the exception being piano. Second best wasn’t allowed, if you weren’t first, then you were last. Not being the best would result in punishment of correcting your failures hours on end. In the hope that, these painstaking hours would result in regaining success. School was at utmost importance, and being years ahead of other classmates was expected. If expectations weren’t met,

Aleah- I like your post because I also don’t understand why testing has so much influence on certain outcomes like the money received from colleges, teacher evaluations and etc. Especially since not everyone is a good test taker and a lot of factors can cause someone to do poorly on test like not eating, not enough rest the night before or worried about something

According to education researcher Gregory J. Cizek, these tests are not helping the child. They’re hurting them. He knows that teacher need to show off what their students know, but he just doesn't understand why we have to do these tests. He can tell by his work that more than half of kids have an anxiety toward testing. The student may know a lot, but will freeze during the test. “Standardized testing can create a lot of stress for both educators and students. Excellent teachers quit the profession every day because of how much stress is on them. Students especially feel the pressure when there is something meaningful tied to them. In Oklahoma, high school students must pass four standardized tests in various areas, or they do not earn a diploma, even if their GPA was a 4.00. The stress this can cause on a teenager is not healthy in any way,” he states. His plan is to show people that this is a wrong thing to do and is unhealthy for both educators and the

When the book began it discussed Chinese education. Their education system did not seem relevant because in America our education system is not as strict. There was mention of the long hours that children are in school, and the constant studying they do. Although we study in America we do not take it to the extent that the Chinese do, spending all day at school, and then all night studying, is not an everyday American trait. The only similarity we possess is the emphasis on standardized testing, which from previous studies, we have seen is not good. Zhao even recalls a protest that broke out about the testing and how it promotes cheating. He states, “in June 2013 in Hubei

There are many different methods of how learning develops in children. The two authors show different ways that parents approach encouraging their children’s potential and ability to achieve success. In Amy Chua’s essay “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” she writes a memoir of how she raised her two daughters following her interpretation of the Chinese culture. She limited her daughter’s extracurricular activities and forced them to perfect every subject in school in order to be successful academically even though her method was harsh. She made every decision thinking in the best interest for her daughter’s future. Those thoughts about the future are counterfactual thoughts of what possibilities that may happen in the future, according to

Lin felt inferior to others at Shanghai not even being in the 50th percentile of his class his Sophomore year of high school. Lin did not go on take the testings to get into college because he knew that he would have a slim chance of getting accepted and due to the fact that the college in Shanghai would was so strict about accepting certain students, only 75 percent of nine million can get enrolled into a college according to statistics. Lin knew that he had a very slim chance. Getting into college was just based on the test called “Gaokao” which is known as the “ National Higher Education Entrance Exam” in America, it didn’t matter if you were a good student from preschool all the way up to your senior year of high school, Gaokao has no age restriction since 2001, this test is a nine-hour test that would last over a course of two days, Gaokao test you over many subjects like Chinese Literature, mathematics, English, social-science-oriented-area, natural-science-social area, history, politics, geography, physics, chemistry and biology.

How bitter the words were! If a child never get mother’s acclaim and encouragement, how sorrowful one’s heart feels! Here comes a contrasting comparison of western and Chinese parenting—western parents encourage and praise their child much more often than Chinese parents do. This encouragement helps them create new ideas, independent opinions, developing unique and sparkling characters. Whereas Chinese parents believe in the old saying, “a strict teacher produces outstanding students”, strictness and criticism are important educating guide lines for Chinese parents, which results in obedience and collectivism, compromise, no psyche and no guts to say no. But on the other hand, Chinese do behave better in harsh and high-pressured condition due to their strict training in childhood.

In addition, these tests rates a student’s performance on simply one certain day and does not take into account outside factors. There are many kids who just don’t do good on tests. Many of these students understand the content and are intelligent, but it doesn’t appear on the test. Some students also develop test anxiety, which affects how well they

Most students are either strong under pressure or not. By enforcing testing, we’re assuming that everyone is a proficient test-taker. This is untrue. A child may have perfect grades, yet do poorly on the standardized tests due to poor test-taking skills. We need to create another way of analyzing education. In addition to this, standardized tests don’t test the proper material. They are testing a student’s ability to take a test, rather than their actual knowledge. They only assess Math, English, and Science, providing “exposure only to subjects that are tested (that leaves out social studies, art, music, library, and physical education)” (Berlatsky). This is beneficial to the kid who has a love for math, but what about the one who has a passion for music? Every adult has their area of expertise, and it is the same with children. By creating such specific tests, we are neglecting kids who have interests and skills in other areas. Some people believe that only core subjects are tested because they are the most important. They think it’s impossible to test students on everything, and these three subjects are the most efficient and least costly to assess. While I do agree that it’s impossible to test everything, I believe that there is no reason that we should pick these three subjects over any others. We are making too many assumptions about students: that they are all strong test-takers, that they all care about the test, that they aren’t good at any other subjects. While it will take a lot of time and effort to improve, the standardized testing system in America needs to

The Chinese government set up a wide system of primary schools. For the first time in all of China’s history the majority of the population received a complete basic education. Even though the government’s “Great Leap Forward” program didn’t put

Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, the author of “The World on Fire”, “Day of Empire”, and “Why They Fall”, in a Wall street Journal on January 8th, 2011, believes chinese mothers are the most rigorous on their children. The title of the article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” was not chosen by Amy, but by the Wall Street Journal. Even though Amy did not write the title, there is reasoning that she does believe that chinese parenting is superior. Everyone is wondering how their children excel above everyone else. Thesis…

The differences that exist between the Chinese and American education systems are great and obvious. However, some of these differences don’t play to the strengths of the representative country. American schools allow for greater freedom of movement and choice, while Chinese schools decide the “what”, “where”, and “how” of educational circumstance for the students (Bush, tony, and Qiang Haiyan). These differences in structure should lead to a greater educational standard being held by China, but that isn’t always the case. This paper will examine the differences in education system in the two countries and show that the Chinese system, while