Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother Analysis

I have had the honor of reading an extract from your book :“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” on “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” where you expressed clearly that being raised by a “Chinese mother” is the sole way to give rise to a prodigy. You have probably noticed the brewing storm of controversy concerning the statement and I believe there is a good reason for this. As an Asian student, raised by an Asian family but educated in a British Curriculum, I have first-hand experience with both the Asian system of parenting and Western system of education. Therefore, as I take both systems into consideration, I have a skeptical perspective reading your article. Though your book is certainly thought-provoking, I am not convinced and here is why.

Surely, knowledge is important, but real education in life takes place outside the classroom. You are taking away your daughters’ opportunity to learn social skills and emotionally flourish which are unobtainable through the pages in the textbooks. Undoubtedly, being a professor yourself, you must be aware that the possession of these aptitudes is the fundamental to success, correct? Along with the previous unjustifiable rules, you also do not allow your children to “play any instrument other than the piano or violin.” Both of these instruments are considered to be solo instruments. Your action is a discouragement of teamwork and will disable your children from collaborating with their peers. The ability to work as a team is what makes human such a superior and successful species, and it is what distinguishes us from a machine overloaded with information. Do you think a robot programmed to only academically achieve, but would malfunction under the slightest of pressure could excel in any jobs they do? This system of parenting may produce veterans in the classroom, but in the real world they will be left in their

You refuse to accept anything below an A-plus in their grade cards and would have a pathetic reaction of “screaming and hair-tearing explosion.” This is failure in its own aspect to nurture your children to condemn failure. Failure is merely a border between triumph and defeat which has to be overcome, and an inevitable milestone to success. It should not be avoided ,but instead tackled. Albert Einstein, the synonym of genius itself, has experienced countless failures since birth ,failing to even read simple English at the age of seven ,but ultimately won the nobel prize. He had changed the world of Physics as we know it and behind this were countless failures which he believed to be “success in progress.” Contrastingly, your ideology blinds the children with the thirst for success and the fear of failure that will eventually ravage their fragile