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Message: [QUOTE="BroadwayVa, post: 2974483, member: 6118"] The USA isn't the bastion of Free Thinking. I have known and had Chinese students that had no problem thinking"outside the box". One at Uconn wanted to drive a car. So he purchased a car in Manchester and got it to his dorm. He spent 3 days learning to drive in the parking lot--read the manual and drove to Manchester; took the test and drove home. He found a need, took the necessary steps to get it done, then acted on it. Not necessarily rigid thinking. He was a computer science major, couldn't, initially, understand spoken American English and rarely understood a word spoken. He read the texts because he learned to read English and whizzed through all of his courses. The last I heard, his wife whom he met at Uconn, was teaching in Boston; he was a professor in the SUNY system. Another purchased a DeWalt miter saw, she never saw one let along used one. She proceeded to cut and lay, from pieces, a parquet floor through 3 rooms of her home. Innovative, without fear of failure, her native intelligence served her well. Both were academically superior. It makes a teacher look good with students like these. (an aside, tidbit) The male student above met my (then) 9 year old daughter and said: She's shameful. With a straight face, the wife and I accepted the comment knowing he was still learning to speak American; he meant she was bashful. To this day, now an attorney, we occasionally call her shameful and she remembers the event and gets a giggle match going. The Australian or Canadian systems do little to inhibit Free Thinking. There could be more. [/QUOTE]

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