Educating creative individuals—able to make independent judgments and solve problems

Provide more diversity

Relaxation of excessive examination competition and less testing

Give children room to grow and zest for living to cope with a changing society

Implementation of a 5- day school week in 2002 and strict selection of educational contents

Foster a rich sense of humanity to be capable of self reliance and compassion for others

Opening schools to the outside world

Liaison between schools, families and communities

Reduce the role of schools

Breakaway from  “egalitarianism”

No exam at 15 (unifying lower and upper secondary schools)