American people do more or less received it. Ever been given an assignment that requires you dig through a whole library to prove a point? Or having to conclud

American people do more or less received it. Ever been given an assignment that requires you dig through a whole library to prove a point? Or having to conclude a book all by yourself? There are lot's of critical thinking and reasoning involved there, because if you don't do that ahead of time, other people may criticize you and it's embarrassing. So, you actually received some of the training by doing those things. In China, the text book often concluded most of the things for student, so you end up just copying content from the book into your submission. And teachers will verify your submission by check whether or not you included the right content. Because of that, people lost many of chance to exercise their abilities of forming a sophisticated opinion.