He points out that 50 years of emphasis on education in Taiwan has produced no truly great thinkers. And while educational reform has been all the rage in recent years, the cultural realm has been quite listless. In many areas, including literature, philosophy, film, drama and painting, the term "regression" might not be inappropriate to describe the period.
他指出，重視教育的台灣這五十年來並未產生大思想家，而相對於教改近幾年的熱鬧滾滾，文化界的表現卻非常沈寂，許多領域如文學、哲學、電影、劇場、繪畫等，甚至可用「倒退」來形容。