This style of teaching very often concentrates on trifles to the neglect of essentials. For example, says Ou Yung-sheng, in primary school "life and ethics" classes, the virtue "patriotism" used to be illustrated by the story of the famous general Luo Fuxing, who resisted Japanese rule in Taiwan. The story tells how Luo indefatigably went all over Taiwan using guerilla tactics to attack the Japanese colonial forces.
這樣的教法往往捨本逐末，歐用生舉了一個例，以往在小學《生活與倫理》的「愛國」這個德目，舉的是抗日名將羅福星的故事，寫羅福星鍥而不捨、流轉全台各地，以打游擊的方式對抗日本殖民者。