Chua would do better to see the classroom as a cognitive break from the truly arduous tests of childhood. Where do they learn how to manage people? Where do they learn to construct and manipulate metaphors? Where do they learn to perceive details of a scene the way a hunter reads a landscape? Where do they learn how to detect their own shortcomings? Where do they learn how to put themselves in others\u2019 minds and anticipate others\u2019 reactions?<\/p>\n
These and a million other skills are imparted by the informal maturity process and are not developed if formal learning monopolizes a child\u2019s time.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m not against the way Chua pushes her daughters. And I loved her book as a courageous and thought-provoking read. It\u2019s also more supple than her critics let on. I just wish she wasn\u2019t so soft and indulgent. I wish she recognized that in some important ways the school cafeteria is more intellectually demanding than the library. And I hope her daughters grow up to write their own books, and maybe learn the skills to better anticipate how theirs will be received.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Brooks, who seems to think social education is far more demanding\u2026 Chua would do better to see the classroom as a cognitive break from the truly arduous tests of childhood. Where do they learn how to manage people? Where do they learn to construct and manipulate metaphors? Where do they learn to perceive details […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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