"Homeschooling does have various advantages, such as combining living with learning, fostering family togetherness, and allowing the curriculum to closely match the talents and needs of the student," says Wu Hui-chin, the principal of West Gate Elementary School. But the relative merits of mainstream education and homeschooling are still the source of many an argument.
根據西門國小校長方慧琴的調查研究指出，「在家教育的確具備了教育即生活、學習型家庭、親子關係親密、個別化、適性化教育等等學校教育所缺乏的優點，」但在家教育與主流價值不同，也引發不少疑慮和討論。