<p>haha, I was part of that system for 12 years. All I can say is when people start hanging themselves over an 89%, it just doesn't seem worth it after all.</p>
<p>And they constantly post your class rank for the entire school's viewing pleasure. Competition is fierce.</p>
<p>crazy, crazy, CRAZY competition.</p>
<p>some parts of that article make me cinge though :( </p>
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<p>*** are you serious? these kids are in KINDERGARTEN. these parents, although they want the best for their children, are INSANE. there's more to life than having the most rigorous kindergarten curriculum... these kids are going to lose an important part of their childhood.</p>
<p>wow..-_-</p>
<p>somehow i feel that the image of the geeky indian or asian is too stereotyped.</p>
<p>I myself still don't know multiplication tables above 13 and went to a kindergarten where we only played hide and seek and tag.
Personally i feel the indian system of education is crap with all the memorising part to do.
I feel the emphasis on marks results from the fact that there are so limited good colleges and so many people trying for them.
But though i have never read any book on 'indian way to do arithmetic' , I still got decent marks all my life.</p>
<p>Sounds like the perfect way to kill any creativity in a child.</p>
<p>As the child of two Indian immigrants, and someone who's been to the country several times (with cousins in the schooling system), I can safely say, oh yeah, it's competitive.</p>
<p>Let me just say that there's no valedictorian, instead, there's a gold medalist. As in, the thing you receive when you win a RACE! Also, this may be a tad atypical, but one of my cousins began his calculus course towards the end of 8th grade... : /</p>
<p>Tangentially, they all say its really hard, factual based education pretty much all the way through. Those who went overseas to study in college said that the analytical, outside-the-box thinking that collegiate courses often employ was refreshing after the years of memorization and examination.</p>
<p>Makes me wanna join the Mafia.......</p>
<p>wutever...
my lil bro could count to 20 when he was 2, and everything else that was mentioned about the kindergarten... without anybody teaching him...
why force kids? it completely pointless!</p>
<p>great way to enhance the typical assiduous asian image...sigh...</p>
<p>I lived in Japan for a year, and one of my little host brothers is still in kindergarten. All they do is play basically, and probably learn to count which they all already know how to do. Most of the studying he does is what his mom makes him do when he gets home from school with his other brothers (learning math, learning kanji (japanese characters), writing in a journal, etc). AlexisAn: haha wow thats pretty amazing. My host sister is two and a half and counts to 5 like this: one, two, three, five,...four....eleven....</p>
<p>aww that's cute...</p>
<p>i dunno how he does it... well i guess i wasn't exactly right in saying that no one taught him... but well... he asked and we basically just told him... and he would go one himself... and yea he wants to kno... nobody every "teaches" on purpose...</p>
<p>actually some of these reports aren't right... they could be too generalizing...
I live in China at the moment, and it's actually become a pretty open country... my lil bro goes to a kindergarten just like those in the US...basically they just play, but they learn stuff thru playing... i think that's the REAL education, as opposed to forcing ppl to memorize stuff. Or it could be just me, since i was never good at memorization =P</p>
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Tangentially, they all say its really hard, factual based education pretty much all the way through. Those who went overseas to study in college said that the analytical, outside-the-box thinking that collegiate courses often employ was refreshing after the years of memorization and examination.</p>
<p>^ that is EXACTLY why i am applying to US for college.</p>