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**9mm_fan** · 01-10-2012, 02:06 PM

i learned from my china chinese colleague that they are drilled to learn communism ideology and critical thinking from sec schools till universities. no wonder they beat our ass 90% of the in academic studies.

hope this helps.

Not strictly true. Critical thinking and rote-learning do not exactly go hand-in-hand. I have heard from PRCs who have siblings back home that their siblings lock themselves up in their rooms and study from dawn to dusk. If they "beat our ass", it is only because they are good at memorizing whole chunks of text and "vomiting" them out during examinations. This is not a sign of a superior intellect. Any machine can replicate this "success".

01-10-2012, 02:06 PM	#2
9mm_fan Join Date May 2007 Age 54 Posts 5,191 Senior Member	i learned from my china chinese colleague that they are drilled to learn communism ideology and critical thinking from sec schools till universities. no wonder they beat our ass 90% of the in academic studies. hope this helps. Not strictly true. Critical thinking and rote-learning do not exactly go hand-in-hand. I have heard from PRCs who have siblings back home that their siblings lock themselves up in their rooms and study from dawn to dusk. If they "beat our ass", it is only because they are good at memorizing whole chunks of text and "vomiting" them out during examinations. This is not a sign of a superior intellect. Any machine can replicate this "success".
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