Wang said that the population of Taiwan has been experiencing a negative growth rate in recent years, with the result that many private schools here are facing shrinking student enrollments.

Taiwan and mainland China as well as Hong Kong and Macau should share their teaching and teacher resources, Wang urged.

At present, there are a large number of students from Taiwan going to school on the mainland. Some of them are there because their parents are entrepreneurs who have relocated their businesses across the Taiwan Strait. Others have enrolled at the mainland’s schools because their parents believe those schools have advantages that are lacking in the island’s educational institutions.

If the government here lifts the ban on mainlanders coming to study at the island’s schools, chances are that many parents would send their children to Taiwan to take advantage of the educational facilities the island has to offer. This would partly solve the problem of shrinking student enrollments that’s facing many of the schools here. It also helps lower the tension in the Taiwan Strait.

The government has hesitated to remove the ban for fear that mainland students who come here might become Greek soldiers hidden in the Trojan horse.

The fear is groundless because Taiwan is a democratic society and the mainland students attending school here would be impressed by what they see and gain a whole new perspective on democracy.

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