Following the lifting of martial law, a great tide of relaxation and pluralism swept over Taiwan society. The closed, unitary teacher education policy and the responsibility vested in teacher training for "spiritual national defense" and implementing national policy came under serious question. The Normal Education Law was abolished and replaced by the Teacher Education Law.
隨著解除戒嚴，鬆綁、多元的大潮流席捲台灣社會，師資一元化的閉鎖政策及師範教育負擔「精神國防」、國家政策的角色，遭受重重質疑，「師範教育法」終被廢除，改以「師資培育法」取代。