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Misconceptions about education and schooling held by traditional Chinese parents

Published by davinci on June 30, 2009 in social issues. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

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] [Permalink]

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Education vs. schooling

Published by davinci on January 29, 2009 in autobiography and personal. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Before I relate my high school experiences, I would like to draw attention to the very important distinction between education and schooling. Mark Twain wrote, “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education,” and that is an adage by which I have always conducted myself. Asian parents have a reputation for a very heavy emphasis on education, a reputation that is simply not deserved. In my experience, and in the experience of other Asian children I knew, most Asian parents are actually against education. They are in favour of schooling — which is an entirely different thing — and oftentimes actually at the expense of education.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, at least not for everyone. In fact, it probably benefits most of the children of Asian parents… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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