Exactly same as me. Sometimes I get low and counter troll. I sometimes feel the trolls are done deliberately and some sort of plan going on to create more hate and division. Very sad that this actually works and otherwise normal and rational people can be made into hateful and irrational ones. I can understand these normal people becoming angry and counter trolling. Oh well as long as we remember to try and ignore the trolls and refute claims with reason and good tone. The normal people will also calm down a level and better discussions may be had.
To be honest I think there is many similarity in Asian learning methods for younger people below university. We focus a lot on rote learning and memorization. I think this is good and bad. I don't buy the western blame that all Asians whether Indian, Chinese, or Japanese, use rote learning methods to get to university and onwards. This is good and bad.
Sometimes memorization and information is useful. We are all capable of great intelligence and as long as students are being asked to think outside the normal memorization patterns, the information they get from the memorization can be useful. I'm also an engineer and I can say that Chinese primary and high school has A LOT of memorization methods of learning. This is often so wasteful of time and ability. But it also has certain parts that focus on non-linear thinking and our maths subjects teaching can be very good. It isn't all simply follow methods. Many entrance exam questions test ability to think rather than what a student knows. Similar to maths olympiad questions. But our English curriculum is 100% memorization.
At the beginning of introducing new concepts, Chinese maths and science schools teach memorize info and always say "acceptance before understanding". So A LOT of time is given to rote learning and applying method and using follow the rules. But after that step, they also then focus on understand the rules and think about how and why they exist, then they test higher thinking like how can students apply rules and apply subtle ways to change the rules for different real world problems. People think Chinese school and often all Asian schools only do step 1 because so much time and effort is spent on step 1. Of course our average and below average students can barely handle step 1.
I think many parts of Asia are the same. Koreans also have heavy emphasize on rote learning method especially to create focus and the right attitude to learning in young people. To teach them learning is uncomfortable and hard and often involves trivial exercises and practice practice practice. The smart Indian people I know from my time working overseas, also tell me their teaching is so similar to our's and to be honest both Chinese and Indian engineers were looked down on in Australia but their engineers were the worst and made so many stupid errors. We just looked at each other and rolled our eyes at their arrogance.
Some good aspects and some bad. But some UK schools apparently have looked at introducing Chinese maths curriculum and textbook to take the useful parts. Indian teaching I feel must be quite similar to rest of Asia where we also place importance on a student's ability to learn and remember many useless knowledge and hoping the process of learning and memorizing can adapt to application and non-linear higher end thinking. This is the Asian way I guess. And has been for many centuries and even millenia. But Indian old philosophy schools and Chinese ones also placed great importance on thought and how to think too. Which shows we are all capable of what westerners say we are not capable of. Otherwise so many Asian and South Asian people in western universities and make up elites of western universities and their organizations. Cannot be possible if we are all stupid robots who only memorize.
