So wrote English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. "The advocacy of core curriculum teach ing is in itself a very important education for teachers." Lin Ku-fang says that when NHMC was set up it made broad-based education one of its founding principles, but discovered that attitudes were very hard to change, because "people today feel they are respected for their profession rather than their personality."
「通識本身的提倡，對老師就是很重要的教育」，文化評論者林谷芳指出，南華成立時就把通識教育視為創校理念，但還是發現觀念問題最難突破，因為「現代人常覺得自己被尊重是因為我的專業，而不是我的人。」