Should parents push children to take up extracurricular classes?

robert237 (US)

If they want to take the classes it's a great idea. If they don't want to or aren't interested why bother? As the old saying goes: you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

A student from a primary school in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, practices for the aoshu, or math Olympiad, during a class in July 2014.[Photo/Xinhua]