Kind of late to give a feedback about educcating the next generation. However, the timing is just right shortly after the "Tiger mom" put her experience in print.

Knowing that the author is a Chinese woman from Singapore and her husband, a Jewish, I am not fazed by the idea the former has perpetuated in her book. Her memouir just further precipitates by many degrees why Chinese imigrant and their decendents of next generation and beyond, will continue their status as an insignificant minorities in America if the Tiger mom's concept of child development continues to exist.

Perhaps, I should share with you my approach and my wife's too on this subject. In essence, ours is very much in line with those opinions delieverd by Mr. Steven Jobs in his commencement speech at the Stanford Unvieristy in 2004. The main points are the life of each individual, man or woman, children or adults is his and hers only to live and each individual should explore what they want to do in their life that would make them happy for each person has one life to live. The most touching, however, is the parting words of "Stay hungry and stay foolish!!" . 

For the first hand read of his speech, you might want to google with keywords of Steven Jobs or go to the webpage of Stanford University for the entire text.

Best,

Kuonan from New York. New York

過去二十年，教育界很注重推展創造思考，但多半太重視擴散性創意思考的隨想狂想，少重視垂直整合體驗創作的邏輯、系統思考，少了重要環節的教養，的確會出現問題。

從【思】到【創】的道路很長，我認同您提出的幾個現象：【很爛的創意…值得被唾棄】、要給孩子必要的支持、適度的讚美。教養是一門學問，教養也是藝術，謝謝您的分享。