Tough Love: An Education
Asia is renowned for producing some of the best and brightest students in the world. Such academic achievement is often underpinned by parental pressure, strict discipline and relentless hard study. In Hong Kong, the demand for extra tuition has turned cram or tutorial school teachers into rich celebrities. Yet some students have been driven to contemplate...
In Search Of The Tiger Mother
What was your childhood like? If you’re Chinese, was it filled with after-school tuition classes, piano and swimming lessons, ballet and homework? Did your parents tell you it was all for your own good? Do you now agree? Cram school in Hong Kong Recently, we spent three weeks in Hong Kong visiting schools and talking...
