Quote Originally Posted by pmburk View Post
I am quite surprise to have read your post because I always felt that Asian students had more self discipline and desire to learn. Are you speaking only about the students in Thailand or Asian students in general?
The only Asian I have taught are Thais. The Thai education system is seriously screwed up. The Thai students do work hard, but most of what they are being taught is crap. Most Thai students will start school at 8am and keep going until 4pm. Then they will go to evening classes until 8pm. Then on Saturday many students will have a three hour English class and maybe an hour or two on other classes.
The sad thing is that the teachers who are paid to teach during the week deliberately do a bad job because they can charge to teach the same stuff after school and on weekends.

I can imagine that the Asian students who are studying in Australia and America study very hard because they can see how hard their parents have had to work. They can easily recognize the value of a good education.