Home tutoring was common in the families of the nobility and wealthy, and bullying and corporal punishment were common at the best independent schools.

在贵族家庭中家庭补习很普遍，在最好的私立学校里欺凌和体罚很常见。

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Parents looking for an alternative to traditional schooling for their child now have options other than special classes, tutoring and expensive private schools.

那些正在为自家小孩寻找传统学校教育之外替代品的家长们现在除了选择特殊课程，家教和收费昂贵的私立学校外又多了一个新的选择。

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This motivated me to establish Study Bush, a volunteer organization that encourages 120 excellent high school students to provide peer tutoring for children in substandard private schools.

这种念头激励着我建立了“学从助学组”，这是一个自发的组织，由120位来自重点学校的尖子生为在私立学校学习的外来劳工子女免费补习辅导。

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In China, where private tutorial schools were unknown until the economy opened up in the 1990s, New Oriental Education and Technology has grown to become one of the largest tutoring schools in Asia with around 2.4 million students this year.

BBC: Meet the 'tutor kings and queens'

The top Republican on the House education and labor committee, Rep. John Klein, R-Minnesota, expressed concern that tools to help students at struggling schools, such as tutoring, would move from required to optional.

CNN: Top issues: Education

Investment takes many forms, not just formal education, but buying a house in a neighborhood with the best schools, paying for informal and extra-curricular tutoring, classes, cram-schools, camps, foreign travel, etc.

FORBES: Demographic Decline and Investment Intensity in Children -- Observations on China and Japan