The new education has held sway for more than half a century. Today a six-year-old sits in a schoolroom with forty or fifty classmates as they recite in unison the Chinese phonetic alphabet and sentences like: "I get up early every day, and the sun gets up early every day too."
轉眼新式教育當道已匆匆一甲子有餘，小小蒙童，叫名六歲，坐在四、五十人的偌大教室裡大聲朗誦ㄅㄆㄇㄈ、「我天天早起，太陽也天天早起」… …，似已全無爭議。