Ting Ya-wen says she will never forget a letter that a junior high student wrote to former Minister of Education Wu Ching, which related that during his three years of junior high the student had taken more than 2,500 quizzes. School had produced mechanistic reactions in him. He had become a test-taking animal.
丁亞雯一直記得一位國中生曾寫信給前教育部長吳京，信中訴說國中三年他一共寫了二千五百多份測驗卷，國中把他教成機械反應、寫考卷的動物。