Stick With It Quotes

“Stevenson and Stigler – psychologists who studied Japanese and Chinese education in the early 1990s – recount an experiment they attempted to carry out on persistence in Japanese and American children. Their intention was to give students from each country a maths problem that was unsolvable in order to see how long they would keep attempting it for. However, Stevenson and Stigler weren't able to complete their study, because the Japanese teachers convinced them to drop it after trying it out with a few children. They'd found that the children refused to give up, and had carried on attempting to solve the problem for far longer than it was fair to let them try for.”
― Lucy Crehan, Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers

“Other studies have shown that not only do East Asians persist longer in the face of challenge, they are also more likely to see it out. Not only that, they are actually spurred on to work harder in the face of failure – the opposite reaction to typical Western students.”
― Lucy Crehan, Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers