{"id":6069,"date":"2008-12-11T10:33:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T17:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2008-12-11T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T17:34:06","slug":"the-worlds-largest-country-is-well-along-the-way-to-forming-an-intellectual-elite-on-a-scale-that-the-world-has-never-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6069\/the-worlds-largest-country-is-well-along-the-way-to-forming-an-intellectual-elite-on-a-scale-that-the-world-has-never-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"“The world’s largest country is well along the way to forming an intellectual elite on a scale that the world has never seen…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Asia Times:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

America outspends China on defense by a margin of more than six to one, the Pentagon estimates. In another strategic dimension, though, China already holds a six-to-one advantage over the United States. Thirty-six million Chinese children study piano today, compared to only 6 million in the United States. The numbers understate the difference, for musical study in China is more demanding.<\/p>\n

It must be a conspiracy. Chinese parents are selling plasma-screen TVs to America, and saving their wages to buy their kids pianos – making American kids stupider and Chinese kids smarter. Watch out, Americans – a generation from now, your kid is going to fetch coffee for a Chinese boss. That is a bit of an exaggeration, of course – some of the bosses will be Indian. Americans really, really don’t have a clue what is coming down the pike. The present shift in intellectual capital in favor of the East has no precedent in world history.<\/p>\n

“Chinese parents urge their children to excel at instrumental music with the same ferocity that American parents [urge] theirs to perform well in soccer or Little League,” wrote Jennifer Lin in the Philadelphia Inquirer June 8 in an article entitled China’s ‘piano fever’.<\/p>\n

The world’s largest country is well along the way to forming an intellectual elite on a scale that the world has never seen, and against which nothing in today’s world – surely not the inbred products of the Ivy League puppy mills – can compete. Few of its piano students will earn a living at the keyboard, to be sure, but many of the 36 million will become much better scientists, engineers, physicians, businessmen and military officers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Any activity that requires discipline and deferred gratification benefits children, but classical music does more than sports or crafts. Playing tennis at a high level requires great concentration, but nothing like the concentration required to perform the major repertoire of classical music. Perhaps the only pursuit with comparable benefits is the study of classical languages. It is not just concentration as such, but its content that makes classical music such a formative tool. Music, contrary Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Asia Times: America outspends China on defense by a margin of more than six to one, the Pentagon estimates. In another strategic dimension, though, China already holds a six-to-one advantage over the United States. Thirty-six million Chinese children study piano today, compared to only 6 million in the United States. 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