For real. Asian kids don’t have lives outside of school, they are like robots with one purpose in mind - to pass. High suicide rates are not coming from nowhere.
A colleague from South Korea explain to me that his daughter, 11yo, back in korea had school from 8:00 until 15:00, then had extra math class from 15:00 until 20:00 -every day- then spend 3 hours on homework. As a west-european, this sounds to me like child abuse, but ok.
Pretend you’re a Korean parent and you want your kid to succeed without overworking them. Assume you have perfect knowledge of the state of the Korean education system and are not affected by cultural biases. How would you go about raising your child?
If the goal is to raise a person who is happy and competent and confident and healthy, not overworking them with fairly inconsequential math. Anything but that.
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