Kao, who has never inflicted corporal punishment on a pupil for poor scores in his 13 years as a teacher, says: "I do of course want my class to come top in the school, and I'm the first to applaud if they manage that, but this is not the norm against which I evaluate pupils."
以他教學十三年的經驗來說，沒有為成績打過學生，「我當然也希望我的班能考全校第一名，如果他們真的做到，我會為他們拍拍手，但這不是我權衡學生的指標。」