Originally Posted by Bostonian
The uproar about "Why Chinese Mothers are Superior" was not about classical music, although that's what Amy Chua's book is mostly about.

Every time somebody mentions Amy Chua, I think about how often I skipped her class and the time I went to a party at her house.

She's a pretty nice person.

The only thing that ever irritated me about her was the fact that she was a academic social climber who seemed bent on getting to Yale.