# OMG…how WOKE is the taiwan education system? **URL:** \ **Category:** Taiwan Politics\ **Created:** [January 11, 2026, 9:50am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576 "2026-01-11T09:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![hansioux](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hansioux/32/253648_2.png) [@hansioux](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/hansioux)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/54 "2026-01-12T02:47:55Z")
> [@ExpatDad](#): > > Common sense and common courtesy…can you eat that? Will it protect you from an invasion? Yes. Since China doesn’t operate on common sense and common courtesy, having these traits keeps the society together and forges a common non-Chinese identity. ---
**Author:** ![ExpatDad](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/expatdad/32/275427_2.png) [@ExpatDad](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ExpatDad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/55 "2026-01-12T02:48:45Z")
> [@cdn1234](#): > > It seems that he pulled his daughter from a highly practical class just because the org having a stated goal of more women in tech is too “woke”. > > Real practical, non-political reasoning there. Actually found friends who are entrepreneurs and programmers and put my daughter there instead. You’d put your kids in the Confucius institute to learn mandarin I bet. ---
**Author:** ![ExpatDad](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/expatdad/32/275427_2.png) [@ExpatDad](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ExpatDad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/56 "2026-01-12T02:50:04Z")
Y’all are teachers but the purpose of school is to prepare kids to be the workers of tomorrow….not the activists of the 20th century ---
**Author:** ![slawa](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/slawa/32/112823_2.png) [@slawa](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/slawa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/57 "2026-01-12T02:54:02Z")
Xinjiang education camps have the best work ethic and none of the western political wokeness! /s ---
**Author:** ![hansioux](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hansioux/32/253648_2.png) [@hansioux](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/hansioux)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/58 "2026-01-12T02:56:01Z")
> [@ExpatDad](#): > > Y’all are teachers but the purpose of school is to prepare kids to be the workers of tomorrow….not the activists of the 20th century The purpose of school is to prepare kids to find a career suitable for them on their own, whatever career it maybe. > [@slawa](#): > > Xinjiang education camps have the best work ethic and none of the western political wokeness! /s I should have finished reading what you wrote. Nothing else is needed after that post. It would have saved me from looking even more pedantic. ---
**Author:** ![ExpatDad](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/expatdad/32/275427_2.png) [@ExpatDad](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ExpatDad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/59 "2026-01-12T03:03:45Z")
> [@hansioux](#): > > The purpose of school is to prepare kids to find a career suitable for them on their own, whatever career it maybe. You do you. Imma influence my kids to focus on earning a solid income, becoming financially free and stop needing to work - but that’s me. ---
**Author:** ![hansioux](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hansioux/32/253648_2.png) [@hansioux](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/hansioux)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/60 "2026-01-12T03:14:40Z")
> [@ExpatDad](#): > > How about teaching farming and the importance of farming in Taiwan instead of caring about the CO2 it emits? > > How about teaching how to get those foreigners to assimilate and know their place in the social hierarchy? I’m not saying be mean or evil but…to force a home country population to adjust to a guests is…well…non-sensical. > > And dont worry - for how bad Taiwan treats these 4th world country immigrants it’s still better than how they are treated at home. I wouldn’t say that Losers Back Home applies in this case because to be fair…their countries suck when it comes to providing economic opportunities. > > And again yes it doesnt mean that immigrants should be treated like slaves or beaten into closets but at the same time…why the heck should people from Taiwan have to adjust to anything? Should these classes replace English and teach children Indonesian or Vietnamese next? \>\< I think teaching tolerance, compassion, and caring for the well being of future generations in school is just hoping that some of these values will be taken to heart by some of the students. Most likely people will still grow up to do things that benefit them in the shortest amount of the time. However, as long as people feel like these values are worthy to be taught in schools, there’s a chance for change very slowly, which I think is what democracy is all about. ---
**Author:** ![cdn1234](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/cdn1234/32/202817_2.png) [@cdn1234](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/cdn1234)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/61 "2026-01-12T03:15:44Z")
> [@ExpatDad](#): > > You’d put your kids in the Confucius institute to learn mandarin I bet. I already speak it just fine, unlike some. ---
**Author:** ![hansioux](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hansioux/32/253648_2.png) [@hansioux](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/hansioux)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:16am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/62 "2026-01-12T03:16:28Z")
> [@ExpatDad](#): > > You do you. Imma influence my kids to focus on earning a solid income, becoming financially free and stop needing to work - but that’s me. And what do you think your kid should focus on to achieve that in the coming age of AI? ---
**Author:** ![ExpatDad](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/expatdad/32/275427_2.png) [@ExpatDad](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ExpatDad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/63 "2026-01-12T03:23:46Z")
> [@hansioux](#): > > think teaching tolerance, compassion, and caring for the well being of future generations in school is just hoping that some of these values will be taken to heart by some of the students. Again yes I agree with you but not at the cost of pragmatism. A schools job is to help kids get a job…not be a woke activist for 20th century causes. Enough with the indoctrination at the guise of goodwill. being a compassionate person is something you learn from your family or cohesive society…two things taiwan is losing out on. > [@hansioux](#): > > However, as long as people feel like these values are worthy to be taught in schools, there’s a chance for change very slowly, which I think is what democracy is all about. Are parents even being told that their kids are being brought up to value immigrant cultures above their own? Or to focus on Western ideals (greenhouse gas) that both make no sense in taiwan and are controversial? ---
**Author:** ![Poundsand](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Poundsand](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Poundsand)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:26am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/64 "2026-01-12T03:26:18Z")
> [@ExpatDad](#): > > to prepare kids to be the workers of tomorrow Which is, of course, the main purpose of girls who code. The program you didn’t want your daughter in. ---
**Author:** ![ExpatDad](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/expatdad/32/275427_2.png) [@ExpatDad](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ExpatDad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/65 "2026-01-12T03:28:15Z")
> [@Poundsand](#): > > Which is, of course, the main purpose of girls who code. The program you didn’t want your daughter in No offense - but have you not seen this? I’ll post it again ![IMG_3638](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/4X/8/0/6/806932eaec678ddefb783105c3b723c68e8e3c82.jpeg) Where does it say: we prepare girls to become programmers? Tell you what; go to their website and see if you can find something that says that their job is purely to teach girls programming. Oh and if you go to their jobs page you’ll see that they hire women AND non-binary. So I’d have a transgender male teaching my girl too…screw that I’ll give you some credit because you did help our military. And again I initially was gonna sign her up until I did some digging around. Forgive me having been a protective parent. ---
**Author:** ![Poundsand](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Poundsand](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Poundsand)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:39am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/66 "2026-01-12T03:39:50Z")
> [@ExpatDad](#): > > No offense - but have you not seen this? I’ll post it again > > ![IMG_3638](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/4X/8/0/6/806932eaec678ddefb783105c3b723c68e8e3c82.jpeg) > > Where does it say: we prepare girls to become programmers? What gender gap in tech do you think they’re referring to? A lack of female janitors? ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:20am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/67 "2026-01-12T04:20:29Z")
> [@hansioux](#): > > Case and point why people need to learn more about the aboriginals. The right in the 2020s has come down squarely on the side of anti-knowledge (cutting cancer funding, stopping stats from being released or even compiled, attacking universities, etc), so this part is at least consistent. Guy ---
**Author:** ![crusher](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/crusher/32/235005_2.png) [@crusher](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/crusher)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/68 "2026-01-12T04:22:07Z")
They just copy > [@ExpatDad](#): > > So I’m doing homework for my fourth grader and I’m finding every other question to be about > > - being accepting towards immigrants from fourth world countries and not lumping them together > - Greenhouse gas and global warming and its effects on taiwan… > - Doing research projects on aboriginals… > > I mean don’t get me wrong these are nice things but they won’t help the next generation moving forward. It’s just socialist crap. > > Taiwan has bigger issues like…China…birth rates…how to not go through the school system to work for 70 hours a week earning $1000 a month pretax. > > talk about getting your priorities messed up > > anyone else finding this? Is this the public school system forcing private schools to indoctrinate here too? They just copy the US but about ten years before , so they’ll probably be unwoke and copying Trump in a few years. I’ve heard people asking who will be the “Taiwan Trump.”. When values change with trends bad things happen. ---
**Author:** ![afterspivak](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@afterspivak](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/afterspivak)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:26am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/69 "2026-01-12T04:26:50Z")
> [@crusher](#): > > I’ve heard people asking who will be the “Taiwan Trump” Terry Guo did have a run at it. Thankfully the people of Taiwan—who are quite familiar with rich egomaniac bosses—could look at that as a presidential option and say “no thank you.” Guy ---
**Author:** ![Brianjones](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@Brianjones](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Brianjones)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:30am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/70 "2026-01-12T04:30:50Z")
Only an ignorant gobshite would complain about teaching about global warming and local people’s culture in school. ---
**Author:** ![flatlandr](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/flatlandr/32/175113_2.png) [@flatlandr](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/flatlandr)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:40am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/71 "2026-01-12T04:40:40Z")
Sounds like a chance for a critical thinking moment. ---
**Author:** ![Brianjones](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@Brianjones](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Brianjones)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:42am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/72 "2026-01-12T04:42:36Z")
I was learning about global warming, the ozone hole and local culture in school in the 80s and this dude calls it woke, what an ejjit. Home schooled up the wazoo or what ? 😂 Kids in 4th grade are supposed to analyse and fix the shitty labour system in Taiwan ? 😆 ---
**Author:** ![hansioux](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/hansioux/32/253648_2.png) [@hansioux](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/hansioux)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:48am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576/73 "2026-01-12T04:48:11Z")
> [@ExpatDad](#): > > Where does it say: we prepare girls to become programmers? The “girl who code” part? Anyway, it’s irrelevant. The entities that will be doing the majority of coding in the future are decidedly agender. [Previous page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576.md?page=2) [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/omg-how-woke-is-the-taiwan-education-system/255576.md?page=4)