At the time some voices were raised in favor of retaining old-style scholarship while also popularizing the new, but others called for abolishing the old learning lock, stock and barrel, and going over completely to Western-style schools as envisaged by Kang Youwei and Liang Qitao.
當時，一種聲音是保留舊學推廣新學，一種聲音是完全取消舊學，全部改成康梁想像中的西式學堂。