Three years ago, when Mr. You invited me to act as convener of Ilan's "Editorial Committee for Locally Oriented Language Teaching Materials," I made my acceptance conditional on his placing local vernacular education work in the cultural and educational sphere, and resisting any attempt to put it on the political level where it could become a tool in the Democratic Progressive Party's political battles with the Nationalist Party (KMT).
三年多前，遊縣長請我當宜蘭「鄉土教材語言篇編輯委員會」的召集人時，我這邊相對的要求條件是：必須把本土語言教育工作定位在文化與教育的層面，反對將這件工作擺在政治層面，成為民進黨對國民黨政爭的工具和方法。