{"id":7377,"date":"2011-01-27T01:01:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T01:01:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-27T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T01:01:38","slug":"Larry-Summers-vs-Tiger-Mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=7377","title":{"rendered":"Larry Summers vs. Tiger Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry Summers likes to view himself as a \u201chard ass\u201d \u2014 his own words \u2014 when it comes to educating children. As the demanding president of Harvard University early last decade, he often pushed his own faculty to be tougher with kids. \u201cI found myself fairly frequently saying things that people found to be outrageous,\u201d he said at a dinner on the sidelines of Davos on Wednesday. \u201cI would say, \u2018I think you have to decide whether achievement is the route to self-esteem or whether self-esteem is the route to achievement.<\/strong> I think you guys think self-esteem is the route to achievement, and I think you\u2019re wrong.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvard\u2019s Larry Summers faced off with \u201cTiger Mom\u201d Amy Chua in a debate at Davos.So Mr. Summers, who has returned as a professor at Harvard after two years as President Barack Obama\u2019s top economic adviser, found himself momentarily flustered when asked to speak at the dinner debate with Yale Law School\u2019s \u201cTiger Mom,\u201d Amy Chua, whose memoir of her own hard-nosed child-rearing tactics has spurred an international discussion about pushing kids for straight A\u2019s and high academic achievement. His own children would be shocked to hear it, Mr. Summers said, but maybe Ms. Chua is wrong.<\/p>\n

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