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Now this one is real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQnfj3FP … ure=g-vrec
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Five little prodigies. Marvelous.
Why do I even try?
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We need teachers here who can accomplish something like this. Can you imagine?
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Pete I would have too see them in person too really belive they are playing that on thier own.
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Hmmm I wonder what the teaching method was? Starvation if tehy dont get it? how many hours a day were they made to sit there? I may sound extreem, but it really is how some countries do things. Just look at teh BS 6 yr old beauty queens with the sadistic moms who were never good enough to win on their own, and now they are giving them even more attention with a tv show?????
ok off my soap box.
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I agree beamer. Those countries push hard to learn. Same in gymnastics. Those kids probably practice many hors each day. The pay off is good however.
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beamer wrote:
Hmmm I wonder what the teaching method was? Starvation if tehy dont get it? how many hours a day were they made to sit there? I may sound extreem, but it really is how some countries do things. Just look at teh BS 6 yr old beauty queens with the sadistic moms who were never good enough to win on their own, and now they are giving them even more attention with a tv show?????
ok off my soap box.
True, sorry guys their playing is awesome, no offence to that, but it does have an aura of child abuse around it. I have had a good deal of contact with Asian kids and, believe me, even outside of Asia there are crazy thing going on in their communities. I remember having this classmate who was 17 and in severe depression as he got scolded by his family that he is not achieving good enough. He was a stable A student, in some kind of sports team, in 2 or 3 comitees at any given time and performed Phantom parts of ''Phantom of the Opera'' in school musical with a great skill, but after performance couldn't look his family in the eyes.
No offence to Asians in general in this comment, I know also amazing close knit families, but, their culture makes them competitive as, and I bet those children played till their fingers bled and well past that, and I m not sure if it happened from their free will.
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I once was in a class for "Radiation safety Officer" Its all about half life , shielding , ect... most of us were military or civile defence. We had a young guy about mid 20s who was a nuke engineier who was asian. Very cool guy btw, we had an asignment and the instructor told us when we finished we were done for the day. 5 min later he stood up and said C-Ya! We gave him he!! for blowing the Bell curve and the jokes about him being an overachiver. He said in all seriousness, " Actually im the lazy one in my family, I like to party." Seems his 4 older brothers and sisters were super smart neuro surgeons and stuff like that. He also told us how many hours a day he was forced to have to do studies.
A great guy, wish Idd kept in touch with him.
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