He has been called crazy, monster and has even received death threats. In some radio shows, listeners claimed that the authorities intervene and to take away custody of their daughters. The theme of his book has made recurring dinner coffee cliques and media offices across the United States and has arrived to a greater or lesser extent, much of the Western countries.
Amy Chua For mothers there are differences between Chinese and Western. More important than their self-esteem is that children achieve goals, says Chua. Experts scoffed at the ideas of this professor at Yale. Amy Chua has warmed the cold U.S. winter with a memoir - Battle Hymn of the mother tiger - on his belief that children must be educated in a strict discipline that leaves out something as common and popular as that children being left to sleep home of friends. Chua also believes that children can not watch TV, play on the computer or participating in school plays. Nor can they lower the outstanding notes. And they must play the piano or violin. Any other instrument is not an option, only the piano and violin forge character.
Married to an American, Chua is the daughter of Chinese immigrants born in the U.S. and Professor of Law at Yale University. In the book, the author defends the strict style "Chinese mothers" on, she said, overprotective mothers too "Western."
Why so much controversy has arisen with the revision of an idea of \u200b\u200bcoercion and authoritarianism as an educational method, as old and, in most developed countries, so overcome? A clear factor appears to be the attraction of the West Asia and especially China. "There is an imaginary Chinese into the paradox: we love and fear him," says the professor of social psychology at the University of Valencia José Vicente Esteve.
In fact, some analysts have suggested that, at bottom, the cause of the commotion is the panic of Americans to be devoured by the great Chinese giant, not only economically, but 'also' in education. At this idea helps the recently published OECD PISA-a macroexamen reading, math and science to 15 year olds from 65 countries in the world, in which students of Shanghai and South Korea have achieved the best results even above the European paradigm of quality education: Finland. "It is clear that following the latest PISA going to live in the coming years a change in the educational reference," says the president of the Confederation of Educational Psychology and Guidance from Spain, Juan Antonio Planas.
But perhaps the key to great dust raised is that, although most experts flatly reject their recipes, Chuan may be partly right in their criticism. "You're seeing a very permissive society is generating overprotective emotionally immature people. But in education ends are never good. Neither this type of education such as the Spartan mother tiger or excessive laxity are good references," says Planas.
"Certainly in the model (speaking in generalities) West, especially that of some American stereotypes, adults appear to exhibit uncertainty and anxiety that is not effectively beneficial to the school or education or family, "says Professor of Psychology at the University of Cordoba, Rosario Ortega, who refuses, in any case, Chua's ideas, which came to be called" aberrant "and" a string atrocities. "
" tenacious practice is crucial to achieve excellence, "said Chua in her book." Repetition is frowned routine in the U.S., "he says," families are more concerned with Western self-esteem of children by their own efforts. "As a sociologist at Complutense University Enguita Mariano Fernandez, the idea is the one most interested in the debate: Is it self-esteem needed to get something or do I need to get it to have self-esteem? "They're probably both, a circular relationship, but there is no doubt that some Western pedagogism has taken things to the extreme," he says.
Chua exist for Western mothers and mothers Chinese. A Western mother would tell your son has done something very right the first time you do and the child will lose all interest to repeat it, according to the author. China mother knows that nothing is fun until it "dominates." "You have to work hard," explains Chua. "And the kids never want to work, so we have to decide for them. "intelligent, with a sense of humor, says his ultimate goal was not to drop them" good "to their daughters but loved making them capable of facing the world, competitive and cruel as it is.
The fear expressed by Yale professor is that later generations of Chinese parents who did the hard work to migrate and gain a foothold in American society settle down and end up failing. Chua talks failure material, not emotional failure, while acknowledging in his memoirs that there was a time when he realized that if he kept pushing her young daughter the way she was doing it would lose. Lulu came a hair cut herself before her mother's refusal to take her to a hairdresser because what had to do was practice and practice with the violin.
"control the pressure and punishment have adverse effects because they give the chance to experience and manage their own areas essential to a full, successful and happy. Moreover, they generate resentment and do not ensure that When the monitoring conditions are not present, the conduct punished not appear. Children learn to simulate correct behavior so that the punishment did not reach. As fear and conformity are not allowed to express their interests and needs, come to the maturity are major shortcomings that can drag to anxiety and depression or violent outbursts, "said Professor Esteve." Education requires that adults are coming around children, give them your support and trust, to believe in them, and sweet (not violently) hold their criteria and their confidence in them, "Ortega added.
Chua attended the last forum in Davos, which due to the controversy surrounding the publication of his book, exhausted in most libraries in Washington. There was a face to face with Larry Summers, a few months ago Barack Obama's economic adviser and now back in his professorship at Harvard. During the meeting, told the newspaper The Wall Street Journal , who first published the excerpt from Chua and opened the box of thunder-Summers told Chua that perhaps should reconsider its reverence for academic achievement . "Who are the two most Harvard students have transformed the world in the last 25 years?" Asked Summers. "Why not Bill Gates [Microsoft founder] and Mark Zuzkerberg finished their university studies."
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