"I remember that when I was in elementary school there were 72 of us squeezed into one classroom. At that time the elementary school had a student body of 20,000, which was called the world's largest," recalls Chen Pi-chiang, a 36-year-old manager of a foreign company.
「我記得小學時全班有七十二個同學，教室擠得滿滿的；那時台北市老松國小甚至有二萬個學生，號稱全世界最大的小學」，四十五年次的外商公司經理陳必強回憶道。