Children in Singapore are generally much smarter than children
in Australia, all thanks to our government enforced spoon-fed
education.
Discipline will need to be complement with morals, a child with
morals will be able to understand the reason behind the necessary
discipline inflicted upon them compared to a wild child without any
morals.
Education has nothing to do with a child's morals and
discipline. The child will learn his/her own set of morals by
mirroring the folks she/he came in contact with ... be it storybook
characters, parents/relatives/siblings, role models such as
teachers/tutors/people they look up to, new friends
and friends they have known, their idols and crushes. These
people will continue to contribute as an important factor and they
affect the child's morals the most, unknowingly to them of
course.
I don't think there's a fixed pattern on how to educate a child,
it really depends alot on the child's behaviour and personality.
Parents who tried to impose the exact same form of discipline they
had when they were a child, onto their own child ... will often
find themselves failing in educating their own child.
Singaporeans on the general, doesn't really know how to educate
their own children. Maybe it's because we're from a
rigid, hardened Asian culture and thanks to all the excessive
but necessary spoon-feeding we all used to depend on since we
were young, we are clueless, indecisive, and simply do not possess
enough confidence to bring up our own children.