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Traditional education treats Internet addictionPosted by Eric Mu, December 10, 2008 5:23 PM
Starting on Monday, Wuhan Morning Post has been running a series of reports on An Deyi, a guoxue master who runs a home school to cure youngsters of Internet addiction. His course in traditional learning, which costs 30,000 yuan a year, has reportedly worked miracles in bringing young Internet junkies back to normal. Today's issue provides more examples that An turns rebellious brats into filial sons and daughters. The newspaper also announces that to help families facing similar problems, An will hold a public lecture on December 21 in Wuhan's Youth Palace. Here is the partial translation of a story that appeared in the December 8 issue:
To find a way out the situation, Yan's parents decided to send her to An's home school to study guoxue, or traditional Chinese learning, for two years. An's method is to simply have Yan recite the ancient Chinese classics for a few hours every day, in combination with a healthy diet and physical exercise. According to An, "to cure Internet addiction, the simplest method is reading ancient masters' classic works....Yan will be able to recite 100,000 characters within a year if she carries on at this pace." About two months into the treatment, Yan's addiction to the Internet has totally vanished and she has taken a healthy liking to reading Chinese classics. Even her father, who was once so disappointed with her, believes that his rude, rebellious daughter has changed. Yan said she owes everything to An, whom she calls "Guoxue Super-Dad." Links and Sources
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Comments on Traditional education treats Internet addiction
Perhaps if her parents has treated her better, none of this would have happened. Personally I think this is really a step in the wrong direction and it sends the wrong message to parents: You can "fix" (brainwash?) your children by dumping them onto someone else instead of being a better parent.
It's a very modern western thing to lay the problem on the parents if the children didn't turn out well. It seems that everyone thinks people below 18 can't make logical decisions, so it can never the kid's fault. Hopefully this idea won't become the dominant mainstream thinking in China.
This was clearly the parents fault. Instead of building bridges with their daughter they tried to launch an invasion.
Agreed with outcast, all i can say is that her parents are making the trouble, it isn't the fault of internet addiction. Her parents should be sent to the school and recite things...Is she that bad? Having boy friend in senior high or junior high doesn't necessarily mean she is a bad girl. I don't like this article, it is very old fashioned, and the so-called Guoxue school, if simply reciting things can solve the problem, well, send criminals to his school too...
I hate parents looked over my shoulder to check what I was doing when I was teen. Typical Chinese parents? I wish I would not do the same if I were parents.