To change society’s beliefs, we must start with education in and around schools. Because of societal beliefs in Taiwan held about the success of a person in relation to their academics, parents only care about their children’s grades, spending extra time on learning school content, excluding all other extracurricular activities, such as music, art, sports, and so on. As students grow up, from elementary school to high school, the amount of time spend on academics increase, whether they have to stay after school until 9:00 to work on homework or study, or go to cram school to improve their academics, students are unable to explore their own interests and specialties, restricting their actions to schoolwork-related activities, while sports remain in the dark, a forgotten interest people believe is a waste of time, activities which people should not spend time on. Even when students get free time to play sports, most of them stay in the shade, talking to one another, still thinking sports are unimportant and unrelated to school, slowly deteriorating the situation for sports-specializing students all throughout Taiwan. At school, other stereotypes crop up: students who are not smart play sports, while the smart people study. In Taiwan, classes of students who specialize in sports spend much more time playing sports than studying, even using school hours to practice the sport they specialize in, similar to how most Taiwanese spend their time studying. Despite all of their hard work, these sport-specializing students still don’t get the respect they deserve, even when they win international medals, because to most students believe sports are just unimportant recreational activities. This stigma towards sport specializing students creates a vicious cycle, dropping Taiwan’s sport system into an ever growing pit of despair. In many countries, sports are activities everyone participates in, while only the best compete in international competitions, but in Taiwan, most students don’t participate in sport, while those competing internationally are those who just happen to play a particular sport. All of these factors pile up to the situation which is abundant throughout Taiwan, a societal value which can only be changed through the hard work of everyone combined.

This situation originates from ancient chinese culture, where all parents want their children to be able to support their families, performing spectacularly on tests to become an advisor for the emperor, which has extended to our society today, with people working to perform better on tests to impress other schools, accepting them over other candidates. The competitive nature of this system gave rise to cram schools and displaying grade comparison for the whole grade to see, increasing stress on the students from a short age, as well as a variety of other issues.

A stark contrast from European and Western styles of teaching, the East use a system where students are forced to memorize all of the school content, and taking regular tests to assess the students’ ability to understand the content. This style of teaching is very divided in terms of results: students who are able to learn well in this system often learn to take lots of stress, good time management, is principled, and have an excellent memory. Even then, most of the students lose sense of themselves in this system of teaching, especially those who are not as successful when information is force-fed to them. This style of teaching also means students only remember the content but don’t always understand fully why or how something happens. Even with it's various benefits, the Eastern style of teaching is often more harmful to the majority of society, only benefiting those with superior memories, and only increasing their capacity for memorization.

After getting excellent places in international sports competitions, Taiwanese athletes always face the same question: what do they do next? The path for success through sport in Taiwan is narrow, not a problem but the effect of the current educational system. Because of the physical educational system in Taiwan, as sport specializing students prepare to graduate, they start focusing more on their athletic performance, ignoring everything unrelated to their sport. This works for select athletes because special programs set for Taiwanese athletes allow students to graduate and enter university through athletic performance mean as long as a student excels in the sport they play, they have a guaranteed pass into a good university. However, this also means they ignore all academic studies, with their sports career as their only target. In the long run, however, these sport specializing students are helpless in society: they only know how to play sports, but they are unable to study and don’t know much about academics. Former Taiwanese track and field nationalist Ci-Bin Xiao (蕭賜斌) noted on facebook that he had nearly given up academics, doing training as his only homework, working 5 hours a day, a proficient performer in track and field. However, as he approached his university years, he started believing his hard work was futile as it could not give him a successful future, so he eventually gave up his training to start finding ways he could get a job in society. Taiwanese long-distance runner Kevin Lin (林義傑) also met the same issues, sending letters to the Taiwanese government to make sure they can get Taiwanese sport-specializing students to have a future other than in sports, such as in economics, architecture, and other differing studies. As these athletes use their sport to get through junior high, high school, and eventually college, they all approach their eternal question: what is the next step in their career? Do they keep on playing their sport, or do they take the advice of their other family and classmates, finding other ways to sustain themselves after they graduate from university?

Apart from being a source of income, professional sports also provide a marker for the level of development of a country’s sport system. When we hear about international competitions, desire to watch sports games overcome all of us, attracting all citizens of a participating country, even if they do not play any sports themselves, which can change habits related to watching sports on TV. At the same time, professional sports also guarantee a future occupation for sport-specializing students, allowing these students to use skills they have been practicing since elementary school as an adult in society, earning a living off of a sport they love. The United States is an example of a country where professional sports have exploded, outgrowing even some international events, including the NBA, where teams can earn money off of admission tickets, broadcast fees, as well as other marketing strategies, allowing a team to earn over 3.1 billion USD in just over 9 years. In Taiwan however, because the culture does not approve of sports, let alone use it to make a living, people don’t invest their time and money to improving the sport system, inciting people to want to watch these games even less. From elementary school, Taiwan’s society and educational system rejects sports as a form of education, with social stigma labeling sport-specializing students as “people who aren’t smart,”and many other discriminatory terms. According to a Taiwanese magazine, in 2016, Taiwan nationalists who participate in the Olympics get 30 million NTD for winning a gold medal, and although this seems like a lot, the fact that you have to get an Olympic gold medal to get this much money is already extremely difficult to most people. This is also one of the rare ways athletes can make money in Taiwan, making the sports business in Taiwan difficult to continue. In order to improve these conditions, change from the younger generations has to take place, changing their beliefs from a young age, and encouraging them to play sports more.

Taiwan’s sports industry’s development is tied to Taiwan’s education and cultural thought. Choxue starts from education, ensure students balance academic and sports activities, so they could have more choices when graduated, also change public image toward student-athletes. As the number of student-athletes increase, the number of the audience would also increase. Therefore, these sports competitions could be known and cared for by the public, the government would also manage to invest in sport industry.