A revealing moment for me occurred during a recent radio interview. The host asked me how East Asian parents deal with their children’s learning in school. After I had been responding briefly, he chimed in with a knowing tone: “So East Asian parents must be immune to whining!” I believe that my host’s internal thinking
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The book brought a torrent of disagreement…even invective. One reader had the book shredded and sent the slivers to author Amy Chua. Chua wrote that Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother was supposed to be about how Chinese parents are better at raising kids, but it turned out to be about a bitter clash of
My only clear memory of studying for my Master of Arts in Teaching degree – this was longer ago than you’ve probably been alive – is my ah-ha! moment of realizing that much more emphasis was being given to motivating pupils than to teaching content. After I became a classroom teacher, I definitely “got” the