Former principal of Taipei's top-ranked Chienkuo High School and current Taipei City Bureau of Education director Lee Hsi-chin sheds some light on the matter: According to my observations, the pressure we feel in the school admissions system comes from the traditional value system that is bred into us. Everyone only thinks about getting into the elite, so-called "star schools."
曾擔任台北市建國中學校長、現任台北市教育局長的李錫津有以下闡釋：我的觀察是，我們的升學壓力來自每個人內心的傳統價值觀，大家只想進少數所謂的明星學校。