Besides these reforms "within the system," some people have also made an end run around the system, by creating experimental educational structures. The Forest Elementary and Seedlings schools were founded with the aim of breaking free of the old system and finding a better way.
除了在體制內改革，也有人師法國外行之多年的自由學校教學方式，試圖從體制外做更實驗性的改革，像先後設立的森林小學、種籽學校等，就是希望打破現有教育型態，尋求另一種可能性。