Under the American-style system of education, each student was treated as a distinct individual, and the school wanted everybody to develop their own ideas, complete their own designs, and fully explain their creative concepts in presentations before large audiences, while student-professor relations were based on dialogue and discussion.
東海的美式教學重視每一個個體，要求學生獨立發展概念、完成設計、在眾人面前完整說明自己的創意發想，並與老師對話、討論。