says Kuo Wei-fan, a professor at National Taiwan Normal University. Kuo, who as minister of education in 1994 first opened the door to educational reform, reveals an astonishing statistic: In his tenure, 70 % of the students who passed the joint university entrance exam came from only 30 high schools. Students from the other 100-plus high schools were only there to "fill in the blanks."
在民國八十三年間擔任教育部長，從此開啟教改之門的師大教授郭為藩透露一個驚人數字：在他擔任部長時，全國大專聯考中成績排名前百分之七十的學生，集中來自三十所高中，其他一百多所高中都只有「陪榜」的份！