Wu Chung-tai, managing director of the NTA, asserts bluntly that many teachers join teachers 'associations to try and gain benefits for themselves, or have more channels to air complaints regarding possible wrongs. Few, he says, join because of idealism towards education reform.
全國教師會常務理事吳忠泰不諱言，目前老師加入教師會的目的，仍以爭取福利或「萬一受害」可以有申訴管道者較多，秉持著教育革新理想的畢竟是少數。