Fifth-grader Hsieh Chung-kang recalled in a school essay that when he first heard his teacher say that they were going to memorize the classics, "I felt very uneasy, and almost blacked out .... Tang poems were a lot like tongue-twisters, and the sentences in Laozi simultaneously explained and baffled, which created a sense of deep mystery.
五年級的謝仲剛在作文中回憶，當初一聽老師說要背書，「頓時感到惴惴不安，『屍居餘氣』眼前一片漆黑。」因為「唐詩長長的像繞口令，老子那種令人似懂非懂的句子，又有一種深奧的感覺。