Quote Originally Posted by td_ref View Post
Mr. doc, if you were showing the "logic" to me, I would be confused. I have my education in China till high school, then went to UK for undergraduate study. All China high school study marxism and mao's philosophy and Deng's. My high school classmate went on that in college, as compulsory subject. I'm not entirly sure if post graduate has to study that too.
I believe you guys didn't have to read textbook Zhengzhi. Neither now new generation parents have saying to object that "philosophy", if ever new parents question the textbook.
td_ref, I'd be guessing you would not be alone and that many local mainland Ch!nese would have no idea about the characters "逻辑" as has been the case with the Ch!nese colleagues/friends I have asked. It seems an elusive concept IMO here inside Ch!na. Reflects back on education both formal and informal. Though in all fairness, the central government is well aware of the failings and short comings of the education system and is wanting to change it, a long with quite a few other aspects without loosing the integral and cultural aspects of what it means to be mainland Ch!nese. These things have to be carefully managed and massaged into place, and will take time. The part about the theories of Marx, Mao, et al. were likely not so much dissected and critically analysed, but just memorised verbatim. I'd assume that td_ref, you'd have simply had to memorise all of the content of say the Mao-!st little red book, carry it with you at all times, and be able to quote from it, if asked?

From my experience assisting Asian students (when I was at Uni doing my first undergrad studies two decades ago overseas), many Asians' really excelled at the hard sciences, where memorising facts, numbers and performing computational tasks were the key to the topic and therefore being able to use and rely on their often keen memorisation/rote learning techniques. Those that were studying soft or social sciences had a much harder struggle with their subjects where interpretation, reflection and critical analysis were more often required.