Fundamental Act of Education Article 2
People are the subject of education rights.The purposes of education are to cultivate modern citizens with sense of national identity and international perspectives by fostering the development of wholesome personality, democratic literacy, ideas of rule of law, and humanities virtues, patriotic education, native soil care and information capability; strengthening people’s physical health as well as their abilities to think, judge and create; and enhancing respect for basic human rights, protection of ecosystems and natural environment, and understandings of and concerns for different countries, ethnic groups, genders, religions and cultures.The country, educational institutions, teachers and parents alike shall share responsibilities to facilitate in the realization of the education purposes in the preceding paragraph.
中文原文 教育基本法第2條
人民為教育權之主體。
教育之目的以培養人民健全人格、民主素養、法治觀念、人文涵養、愛國教育、鄉土關懷、資訊知能、強健體魄及思考、判斷與創造能力，並促進其對基本人權之尊重、生態環境之保護及對不同國家、族群、性別、宗教、文化之瞭解與關懷，使其成為具有國家意識與國際視野之現代化國民。
為實現前項教育目的，國家、教育機構、教師、父母應負協助之責任。
教育之目的以培養人民健全人格、民主素養、法治觀念、人文涵養、愛國教育、鄉土關懷、資訊知能、強健體魄及思考、判斷與創造能力，並促進其對基本人權之尊重、生態環境之保護及對不同國家、族群、性別、宗教、文化之瞭解與關懷，使其成為具有國家意識與國際視野之現代化國民。
為實現前項教育目的，國家、教育機構、教師、父母應負協助之責任。