Differences between Chinese and Western education systems

[PhroX]

In all, I think the Western image of the hard-working Chinese student, for a large part comes from the fact that we mostly get to see the 1% of Chinese students that are good enough to go abroad. 1% of all Chinese students is still a very large number though.

Very good point. And its not just "good enough to go abroad", it's being dedicated enough. The kind of person who's willing to go to another country to get an education is naturally going to be the type of person that's going to study hard.