Since its inception, the Forest Elementary School has been repeatedly called "the Taiwan edition of the Summerhill School." The Pashih school described in the book Dou Dou by the Window, is many people's idea of the ideal liberal education.
森林小學自創辦之初，就屢被喻為「夏山學校台灣版」；「窗口邊的豆豆」一書所勾勒的巴氏學園，則是許多人心目中自由教育的夢想之地。