Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior

Just listen. An individual who takes the guidance of others to heart possesses a priceless quality. The authority figures in “The Banking Concept of Education,” by Paulo Freire describes the pivotal role that educators hold in the educational system. The authority figures in “The Achievement of Desire,” by Richard Rodriguez show the impact of educators on an individual student. In another text called “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” by Amy Chua illustrates the specific conditioning that authority figures implement onto students so that they can succeed in their education. What it means to attain educational success is to fulfill the expectations of authority figures in a student’s education.
The person receiving the education remains under
Both parental and educational authorities students to achieve high performance within the educational system. The educational success of someone can be measured numerically in the classroom and these measurements need to be up to par with the expectations of the authorities. Their performance can be measured through test grades, SAT scores, projects, and other indicators. High performance scores can only be achieved by doing what is expected inside and outside the classroom. High performance in the classroom can be obtained by how well the students “fit the world” (Freire 76) of the educating authorities since the educators regulate how the students exist within the classroom, Parental authorities are only satisfied through a high performance expecting from their children “perfect grades because they believe that their child can get them.” (Chua 54) The success in education that a student has in the classroom needs to be supported by the grades they are pressured to achieve by the authorities. By performing actions like reading for “extra credit” (Rodriguez 221) are actions that will lead to the expected high performance. If a task like this that was expected from the authorities was not completed, a student wouldn’t succeed in the classroom and wouldn’t achieve the high grade within the classroom. The student should perform at an
The various expectations that authority figures guide students to meet, connect together to propel an individual to educational success. This makes the guidance of authority figures priceless to one’s education. Without the expectations of the authority figures being present in someone’s life he or she won’t attain educational success since these expectations of authority figures guide a student on the path to educational