An unsigned TT editorial blames the “Hsinchu incident” (Nazi paraphernalia on sale at Banqiao station? - #149 by yyy) on the education system.
EDITORIAL: Education system failing students - Taipei Times
If history is only about numbers — How many people were killed? What year did an incident happen? — and information is disconnected from context, students are not led to reflect on humanity. For them, history is never about people and their fears, arrogance and ignorance, but only about symbols, which will be treated with flippancy.
“But they’re doing well on PISA!” 