When they got older, Lee Teng-hui came to admire the works of such Western philosophers and writers as Kant and Goethe, and Peng Ming-min read his favorite French authors in the original. Lin, on the other hand, who studied in the night program of a Japanese high school, never missed a single lecture his old Japanese principal delivered on the Four Books.
即使年歲稍長，當李登輝心儀哥德、康德等西方文哲大師作品，彭明敏醉心於法國作家的法文原著時，在日本一間中學校夜間部讀書的林洋港，卻選讀了日本老校長講授的「四書」課程，一次也不曾缺課。