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What makes Chinese students so successful by international standards?
There is a belief widely held across the Western world: Chinese students are schooled through rote, passive learning – and an educational system like this can only produce docile workers who lack innovation or creativity.
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And yet, we have very significant difficulties getting good critical social science assignments from Chinese students [I grade hundreds a year, no exams though], or particularly any assignment that may require criticism of say, corruption or policy failure in China, in Australian universities.