Current mainstream education policies in Taiwan have begun to promote continuing education, but their focus has been on it as a catalyst for domestic growth and increased productivity. The non-government-affiliated leaders of this latest educational revolution have put their focus more on community building and the freeing of knowledge. These two ideas are the backbone of the community college movement.
目前台灣的主流教育政策，也是以配合國家發展及產業升級的出發點來提倡終身教育，但民間教改的主張，卻是強調解放與改造，因此社大才提出「解放知識、改造社會」的運動主旨。