Chinese parents who rock the Tiger Mother style still cling to the remnants of the Old World by expecting obedience above all else and stifling true creativity in favor of tried and true benchmarks of success: Perfect grades, best test scores, admission into top colleges.

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For Milton, all value and all good action depend on obedience to the will of God.

ECONOMIST: Literary criticism

Milton also manifestly does acknowledge that there are other sources of value than obedience to an all-knowing deity.

ECONOMIST: Literary criticism

He took up the law, which made all else possible, out of obedience to his father.

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