"At first he beat us very severely indeed. But that was not because he was cruel or had bad intentions. It was because that was the way education was done in those days. But he was able to abruptly change direction, and thereafter he never again used heavy sticks to beat us."
郭沫若就描述過一位老師的轉變，「他起初也打過我們，而且很嚴峻的打過我們，但那也並不是出於他的惡意，因為打就是當時的教育，但他能以尖銳的角度突然轉變過來，他以後便再也沒有用刑具來打過我們了。」