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Well I would like to point out that in chinese culture, the way people are taught to "learn" is to imitate, I remembering reading my chinese lessons and it would be a story of a great artist who kept copying images of an egg until he could draw an egg that looked like the real thing. The moral of the story is muscle memory, hard work, perserverance, and making knowledge your "own" is the way to progress intellectually. If you look at the way chinese children are taught compared to western education and specifically american education, chinese are taugt to memorize and over practice and through that we are supposed to be able to apply concepts where here its application is taught. Copying is the way I first learned to write a book report, I copied the structure of the example and manipulated to fit what I needed. I've always been told that once I've read something, no one can take that away, which is why I think it's also a cultural perception of knowledge and information.
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