While education reform is something that countries all over the world are engaged in, Prudence Chu-ing Chou, professor at National Chengchi's University College of Education, finds it "unprecedented" that Taiwan, with its limited resources as well as inadequate accompanying measures, is pushing ahead with such sweeping education reforms in such a short amount of time.
政治大學教育系教授周祝瑛評論，雖然世界各國都在進行教育改革，但台灣在資源有限和配套不足的情況下，在短短時間內就推動如此大規模的改革，「舉世罕見」。