"Maybe we should cut back the number of recipients and raise the amounts," Lin Ming-ch'eng says. "We could also cooperate with reputable academic institutions overseas in supporting a certain number of scholars each year to go abroad for advanced study."
目前擔任學田基金會執行副董事長的林明成也有同感。他表示：「或許改變方式，把受獎人數減少，金額提高，並和國外著名的學術機構合作，每年資助幾個名額出國進修或研究，更能合乎現在的需要。」