Part of the problem is that education reform has been conducted without a clear objective, with schemes adopted helter-skelter, and with countless cooks ending up spoiling the broth. Also to blame is the simultaneous and zealous pursuit of globalization and localization by both local and central governments. The result is that the book bags carried by Taiwanese children have become enormous, and the psychological pressure equally weighty.
在缺乏明確理念、手段粗糙、眾聲雜沓的教改下，配合著各級政府急於追求國際化、本土化的目標，台灣孩子肩頭的書包越來越巨大，學習壓力只有愈形沈重，很難想像，現在連小一的體育課也要教紙上作業。