The ideal way of reforming the university system would have been to build on ideas inherited from the past, but in the process of learning from the West, it was inevitable that there would be sharp breaks and conflicts with tradition.
大學改革的理想境界當然是能承先又啟後，但是在向西方學習的過程中，已經不免和傳統發生斷裂、衝突的情形。