Parents, hoping for something better but fearful their children will somehow lose out, are likely to feel ambivalent about the new experiments for a long time to come. Even the reporter wonders whether or not she has drawn too rosy a picture of these new alternatives.
可憐天下父母心，看來「又期待，又怕受傷害」，這樣的心理爭戰還會持續很長的日子。連作者在報導教育實驗一文中種種吸引人的新科教法時，都還擔心「會不會描述得太好了？」