She feels that the children are very malleable, and that they often give her enormous paybacks. For example, one weekend she took a group of children out on an excursion, and a borderline mentally retarded student, seeing that she had a headache, asked her if she had brought any medicine. This moved Kao very much. The Kaohsiung Youth Academy puts great emphasis on "home restructuring".
她覺得孩子的可塑性很大，常常給她窩心的回饋，比如說，一次周末帶孩子出遊，一位輕度智障的學生看她頭疼，就問她有沒有隨身帶綠油精，令她感動不已。