As Tang Mei-ying points out, this means that parents expect their children to perform outstandingly well at school. The importance that parents attach to education is of course a strong point for Taiwan, but one drawback of this is that parents often set their expectations too high.
湯梅英指出，這種觀念一旦放到教育上，父母對孩子就會產生較高的期望，個個期待孩子「出人頭地」。當然，父母重視教育的價值是台灣教育的優勢，但從負面的角度來看，付出越多，期待也就越多。