"望子成龙"

A recent study at the Harvard Family Research Project suggests that high expectations in school lead to high performance. 

High expectations move children forward, even if they don't always succeed. 

Here is the whole article:fatherhood.about.com/od/succeedingasafather/a/high_expectations.htm

Quotes:

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
 

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.