Brit: I totally disagree with your view "Parents from Asian sub-continent countries are conditioned to believe that their children cannot succeed without tuition." I was never tutored at home, but some of my classmates were. It all depends on the child's ability to grasp everything taught in the class within the limited time that a period has. All children are not the same. It is the weaker ones that need extra attention and that comes at home, usually from tutors or from parents. Leaving aside the commercial side where some may have turned tutoring it into a money-making machine, dedicated, qualified tutors do offer much to their students. This is because private tutors have a face-to-face contact with his student, he gets to understand the student better than the class teacher and as such is much better aware of the child's weaknesses. This is where his role comes in and he plugs the shortfalls in learning. The student thus gets to follow better what is being taught at school. Secondly, the class teacher teaches a group and is unable to give special attention to those students who lag behind even if he desires to do so as that will hold back the progress of the class. Certainly, there may be other advantages of private tutoring. No one likes to pay a single extra riyal unless there is a genuine need for something.
Brit: I totally disagree with your view "Parents from Asian sub-continent countries are conditioned to believe that their children cannot succeed without tuition." I was never tutored at home, but some of my classmates were. It all depends on the child's ability to grasp everything taught in the class within the limited time that a period has. All children are not the same. It is the weaker ones that need extra attention and that comes at home, usually from tutors or from parents. Leaving aside the commercial side where some may have turned tutoring it into a money-making machine, dedicated, qualified tutors do offer much to their students. This is because private tutors have a face-to-face contact with his student, he gets to understand the student better than the class teacher and as such is much better aware of the child's weaknesses. This is where his role comes in and he plugs the shortfalls in learning. The student thus gets to follow better what is being taught at school. Secondly, the class teacher teaches a group and is unable to give special attention to those students who lag behind even if he desires to do so as that will hold back the progress of the class. Certainly, there may be other advantages of private tutoring. No one likes to pay a single extra riyal unless there is a genuine need for something.