Educational experience

This is for the first time I am attending formal education in any western country. I studied in India before this and now I can understand the difference in the way lectures are delivered here. Our educational system is based on content, the more you study the better you are supposed to be. Most of the time understanding is very little of the subject and students have no interests whatsoever in the subject but have to go through the process. But here things are quite different, professors try to make concepts clear and try to keep the environment more friendly. Students are allowed to ask questions very frequently that was not the case in India. Students are not supposed to ask so many questions because there is too much to teach. I am not sure what method of teaching is good, perhaps I will know this by the time I will finish my degree.
Other noticeable difference is the stress on referencing. It is something very new to the classmates who have come from Asian countries. Some of the students are finding it very difficult to differentiate where to quote defence and where not. Still it is quite a mechanical process and not habitual. But this is a good practice in a way that due credit goes to the right person and reader knows what is original and what is not.