Originally Posted by JonLaw
Originally Posted by Bostonian
Chua's book is not an advice manual, and sometimes you wonder if she is pulling your leg. An earnest advice manual written in 2005 by two Korean-American sisters (a doctor and a lawyer) is

Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--and How You Can Too
by Soo Kim Abboud and Jane Y. Kim.

I can raise high achievers, too.

However, it's not worth what it costs.

Neither a doctor nor a lawyer are likely to provide good examples of how to how to actually achieve except in the narrow realm of those professions.


Lost in the Meritocracy addresses that nicely, however. Maybe that should also be on the reading list. wink


Last edited by HowlerKarma; 07/09/13 06:26 AM. Reason: clarification
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