Yeah, I saw that pic as well. No doubt the man standing on her endured the same thing at her age.
In the biopic about Jackie Chan's life in those schools it shows the kids literally being bent over backwards over the knee of their teachers and forced to do splits. Jackie was quoted as saying you didn't truly graduate until you sweated blood.
It's one of those cases where I admit the result but question the cost.
I do not question the cost, it is the the results gained by what we call brutal training I admire.
Something as innocent as ballet training, hours of agony staying on tippie toe in shoes that cause malformation to a growing child's feet. Weight training at an early age that takes the growth of height sending it into mussels.
Lessons learned are that it does take blood sweat and tears for even the 5 year old to build a possible future.
Kids are learning that to succeed it is painfull in one way or another. Why are we the only mammals on earth that seldom train our children to survive as adults???? Teach our kids that to survive they have some kind of skill and training, painfull as it may be to ultimately survive.
Now these children are in early life given a purpose in life and work for it. These kids are not like kids that expect to be waited on, given everything they want, they learn to work hard and long for success.
BUT. BUT, where is their childhood of innocence and no responsibility's ????? I know of no adult that had 18 years of freedom and no responsibility that was suddenly thrown into the Adult world that did not have to pay the price as an Adult faced with for the first time in their lives with pain and huge responsibility's that some how over came the lack of training.
The picture of that little girl crying in pain, she will go on, she will see others also crying, but at the end of the day she and the others will come out just a little bit better each day and their self esteem will go through the roof.
One of the reasons that SONG about School Days mentions being taught to the tune of a hickory stick.
Everyone from small kids need a purpose in life, not just to spend one quarter of their life in a bubble of only good things for them. They do in fact appreciate what their own parents went through to keep them alive, as they themselves had the pain and blood as at the time their kids are in.
Question, why is Ancestor Worship so big in Asia ?????
