How old is the child to study abroad?

Experts say the best age to study abroad: 23 to 27.

Zhou Chicheng, a "big international student" who studied in Canada for many years and a professor at South China Normal University, wrote a book "Teenagers study abroad, think twice before you act" after returning to China. In an interview with a reporter from Yangcheng Evening News, he criticized several abnormal phenomena about teenagers studying abroad.

Some parents feel inferior when their children go abroad. Some parents rashly send their children abroad without careful consideration and overall planning, thinking that this is very dignified. ...

Zhou Chicheng said: "Because teenagers are young, their self-care ability and ability to cope with complex situations are obviously insufficient, the result of being forced to study abroad is often unsatisfactory: the light will make the original intention of studying abroad impossible, and the heavy will make children embark on different roads."

China experienced four waves of studying abroad in the last century. After a systematic study of these four waves, Zhou Chicheng found that the best age for studying abroad should be 23 to 27 years old, and the age below 19 is regarded as the bad age for studying abroad. "Most successful international students in history went abroad after 19 years old, and it is difficult for international students under this age to cope with the ups and downs of studying abroad independently," Zhou Chicheng said.

Zhou Chicheng suggested that if parents insist on sending children under the age of 19, at least one party should accompany them out. Parents should not expect their children to work to earn money after their children go abroad to study. There are legal restrictions for teenagers to work abroad, and for a child from a foreign country who has no work experience and is not fluent in language, making money is easier to crush him than reading. Therefore, it is very unrealistic to hope that children can earn money to make up for their lack of funds. He said that as long as one of the above two situations exists-parents can't take their children out, or families don't have enough money to pay for all the expenses of studying abroad, parents should suspend sending their children abroad to study. Zhou Chicheng finally said: "Because if the investment in small international students fails, it will not only lose money, but more importantly, it will waste the children's great youth and even disillusion their beautiful dreams. Nothing can make up for it."