Intellectual Meritocracy versus Justice Conflict: A Dilemma and A Challenge for Diploma-Disease Reform in Taiwan

Originally they were against the privileged. However, their stronger emphasis on superficial equality and fairness had turned out to be social injustice. Similarly, the current new system of education selection, recommendation and application programs, was found to be unfair and injustice.

Any reform of education selection in Taiwan despise fairness was destined to be fail, which reflected the stronger need of social justice in Taiwanese cultural and psychological context. 3. Proposal of the expansion of senior high school and college admission seems a solution of fierce competition, but its side effects should be seriously re-evaluated from the economic point of view, such as diploma inflation and unemployment, and social cultural context. 4.

The resource distribution of education should be re-evaluated how to solve the dilemma between excellence (or elite, growth) and justice in Taiwanese social cultural context. Based on these concluding, recommendations for education selection reforms were suggested.