When from the 1970s the Chiang Ching-kuo administration invited large numbers of academics to join the cabinet, international news media at the time spoke of Confucian values at work. Today, as the KMT returns to power, it appears the belief still lives that "a scholar who excels should enter government."
過去在蔣經國執政後期，就曾大量邀請學者入閣，被國外媒體視為儒家文化的特殊價值觀，如今重新取得執政權的國民黨，似乎仍然堅信「學而優則仕」。