China’s education system also suppresses innovation while rewarding imitation. Although some Chinese schools conduct innovative experimental education, they remain few and have little impact.From childhood to adulthood, Chinese students are subjected to rote learning—memorizing and obeying rather than questioning or thinking independently. Thus, while Chinese students and researchers excel at replication and refinement of existing work, they are poor at true creativity.
No you have to understand I’m an American who went to a gifted program and I need an excuse as to why my watching anime 36 hours a day makes me smarter than the child of semi-literate peasants from Guizhou who was taught Lagrangian Functions at age 4.