„Typically in a Shanghai classroom, students are fully occupied and fully engaged. Non-attentive students are not tolerated. […] This is rather different from classrooms in other cultures, where students may not be required to be fully engaged or attentive throughout the entire lesson. Such intense concentration is considered a student’s responsibility in Chinese culture.“

OECD (Hrsg.), „Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education“ (2011), S. 92