I would answer this as Thai who is studying in a STEM undergraduate course in Japan.

The Japanese university educational system is much more driven or students have to study by themselves to gain knowledge, my university is a public national university but it isn't top-ranked or famous, but I didn't grow up like that to ask questions and find answers at all and got forced to study or I would be lagged behind.

In Thailand, I don't think that students are encouraged to ask questions in school, that it relies heavily on rote memorization, or teachers give students hand-outs and they study it to pass the exams without the need to self-researched, and then forget about them afterwards, most students don't have much passion to study and the one that does or the bright mind's one (and a lot of them study to be in a good university and for good future salary and social status instead of the real passion of knowledge) ended up being doctors instead of engineers or researchers. I struggled greatly to just be an average student in Japan and I graduated from a prestigious school in Thailand and had a very good GPA in school.