One aspect of this relates to different learning styles. This is dependant on memorisation and rote learning. By contrast students with a Western upbringing, including traditional Australian students, often rebel against memorisation as a teaching strategy, favouring an approach which encourages questioning, understanding concepts rather than knowing facts, analysing rather than rote learning. Australian students are often encouraged to search for new ways of looking at things or at the very least to grasp an overall major concept even if this is at the expense of detail. Australian students, I have found, generally show less reluctance to accepting student-centred participatory instruction than do Asian students.
Asian students learn knowledge through correct ways of studying texts and studying correct texts.
The duty of the student is to obtain knowledge and acquire wisdom and it is expected that the teacher will impart the required knowledge fully and clearly. Let's analyse it. Certainly with foreign language training Asian students display a tendency to learn by rote in order to acquire information thoroughly. This is not to say that their learning strategies are shallow or ineffective. On the contrary, in certain areas of assessment they consistently pull in very good results.