Within these 20 years, there have been fundamental changes in the international and domestic situations. For example, the Soviet Union has collapsed and the Cold War is over. Within Taiwan, there has been political liberalization, economic transformagion from developing country to newly industrialized country status, and social pluralization. The authoritarian and rigid education methods of the past cannot produce the leaders that society and the country will need in the future.
在這二十年間，國際、國內的環境都發生了根本的改變，像是蘇聯解體、冷戰結束，國內政治解嚴、經濟由開發中國家邁入新興工業國、社會多元化，用舊的那套威權、僵固的教育方式，已經不能培養出未來社會所需要的國家主人翁。