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The hosts frame Chinese education as a tension between high test performance and criticism of rote pedagogy, Gaokao teaching, rigidity, hierarchy, and cheating.
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Rote Learning
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"Very positive reports from my friend Alison Friedman. Anyway, by wonderful coincidence, we actually will be talking about educational exchange among other aspects of..."
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"in the pedagogical system in China, and about the rampant cheating that may result from some of the above. So today we're delighted to..."
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"...Chinese pedagogy will point right away to the prevalence of this rote learning and the relative lack of critical thinking, like you were talking..."
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"...thinking skills. They talk about the need to move beyond. Just rote learning, everything that I've ever seen. It seems like the Ministry of..."
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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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