~~Schooling and learning~~

One thing I find with the Asian kids here they love going to school ,the main reason being most of the pressure to learn comes from the parents rather from the teachers at school. School is the place they go there have fun and come back happily.In short its a cakewalk for them learning this curriculum.

If I ask Riya what she did at school she says she did some painting, danced to the rhymes and ate some snacks. When was in Scott's(my Hyung's name) home his son Alex was working on his maths homework with ease and he finished it within few minutes. He was in 3rd grade but what he was working on was 5th grade mathematics.I could imagine the level what a third grade would be studying .The same case was with his daughter Ellie who is just 5 was reading lines from her storybook and I m sure in her preschool she wouldn't have come across these things.

These are things which are not learnt in schools but from the parents who make sure that their kids learn stuffs more than what is taught in the school,Riya does her everyday reading after coming from school. So do Ellie and Alex. Apart from the normal learning and writing these children take up extra curricular classes like learning musical instruments or swimming. So the learning curve they have it in the home is much higher than what they catch up from the school.

So education begins at home!