Interestingly, if one leafs through the textbooks which came into use in the late 1980s, one finds that as well as people of ancient times, quite a number of great international figures are also included. Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Mother Theresa and the inventor Thomas Edison are all paragons of virtue familiar to children today.
有趣的是，翻開七十年代後期才開始施行的教科書，會發現古人之外，近代的國際偉人被選入的機率也不低，史懷哲醫師、泰瑞莎修女、發明大王愛迪生等人，都是如今孩子們朗朗上口的人物典範。