From the propaganda of the anti-Japanese war, aimed at strengthening the country and the race, to the schooling that took place after the move to Taiwan, textbooks stressed the morality of scholars who would stay awake by tying their hair to a beam and stabbing their thighs, reading by the glow of fireflies or light reflected from the snow.
其實從宣揚強國強種的抗戰時期，到播遷來台後的生聚教訓，教科書裡不還是無時無地強調著懸樑刺股，囊螢映雪，鞠躬盡瘁，死而後已。