| The Perfect State |
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Over and over again in the West, the message goes out that the parents must be allowed to decide the fate of their children:
- What beliefs to give them,
- To what school to send them,
- What values to instil in them,
- How to discipline them.
It is regarded as outrageous that the State should interfere.
But look at what's happening in the East, in China. … Chinese parents have internalized the values of the State and … realized the imperative of maximizing their children's talents. The phenomenon of the "Tiger Mother"


