This approach to education is problematic,
and psychologists who have studied the mechanisms of learning talk about the importance of intrinsic motivation.
When researchers wanted to send a robot to a destination, they rewarded it for getting closer to the destination by riding a bicycle,
but then the robot started riding in circles to get more rewards, which was not the result the researchers wanted,
as they wanted the robot to get to the destination.

The Chinese education system favors memorization over fundamentals

Also, one of the problems with learning to learn is overfitting,
which is when an AI model is trained so accurately on a data set that it loses track of the underlying structure and can no longer analyze the data set.
This can be applied to the current education system in China, where teachers emphasize memorization on practice tests rather than teaching the basics to improve students’ scores. 

Education systems that present problems after college

This improves students’ scores, but they lack basic math principles and cannot apply them to new problems.
This becomes a problem when students reach university, as there is no quick reward system for advanced math.