Misconceptions about education and schooling held by traditional Chinese parents
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A large part of the reason I have put my autobiography online is to help students with authoritarian parents cope with their parents’ interference in their education. Previously, a person whose parents disagreed with his or her educational or career choices had the option of trying to hide them from their parents. With the Internet, this has become essentially impossible.
Because most people aren’t going to read my rather long autobiography, I have distilled what I want to say on the misconceptions held by traditional Chinese parents about education and schooling into a few important points which I will discuss below. This way, any student caught in the situation that I was in can print this out and use it to tell their parents that they are on the path to destroying his or her academic career… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
The causes of my depression, part 19: the demographics of my graduate school labmates
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Published by
davinci on
May 13, 2009 in
autobiography and personal.
Tags: abusive parents, authoritarian parenting, authoritarian parents, autobiography, Chinese culture, control systems, depression, graduate school, information retrieval, Iranians, LaTeX, Persian.
As I have described in several previous posts, my academic and social lives basically did not intersect while I was an undergraduate. In graduate school, these aspects of my life became somewhat re-integrated once again, because there were so many Iranians in engineering, and especially in my area of control systems.
I should perhaps go back a little and explain why the demographics of my graduate school labmates was noteworthy. Throughout my undergraduate years in Engineering Science, my father had been harassing me about my supposed inability to compete with students from mainland China… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]