For the last half century, thanks to the government policy of subsidizing tuition, equality of educational opportunity has helped to create great upward mobility in Taiwan. Chen Shui-bian, the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate for president who came from a very impoverished family, is just one example of a poor boy who has made out well.
半世紀來，拜國家補貼學費及書本費的政策之賜，平等的受教權一直是台灣人民階級流動的主要助力，出身三級貧戶而苦學有成的民進黨總統候選人陳水扁就是一個例子。