Lin Tien-yu, a professor of elementary education at Taipei Municipal Teachers College, points out that early homeschoolers in the United States were largely motivated by religion. Parents held that the public schools were not providing satisfactory religious and spiritual education.
台北市立師範學院國民教育研究所教授林天佑指出，美國最早提出在家教育的主要理由是基於宗教因素，家長對公立學校無法提供適當的宗教及心靈教育感到不滿。