A new (old) way of thinking.

I keep coming back to this:

TCM education is in fact teaching a completely new way of thinking.

It takes a long time to change the way one thinks.

And it is difficult to teach people to think in a new way.

But wait, isn't it teaching an old way of thinking?

Well yes, but the people learning it (including Chinese) are all modern people, who think in a modern way. What I mean is, everybody took biology and chemistry before learning CM. (that is a concrete, limited way of expressing what I mean)