-- 李敖写在抗日战争胜利 60周年 

　　如果我是日本人，我也会去参拜靖国神社！ 

　　而我是中国人！ 

　　做为中国人，今天我想起在抗日战场和朝鲜战场上用血肉之躯抵抗了小日本和美帝机枪大炮的几千万中国先辈......我欲哭无泪，我想跪下叩一万个响头......却找不到他们的牌位！ 

　　日本人为什么要参拜靖国神社？因为对于大和民族来说，里面所供奉的：都是他们民族的英雄呀！ 

　　为了国家民族的荣誉，日本军人可以驾机冲向美国军舰，同归于尽！战败后可以集体剖腹！剖腹！ 

　　你知道怎样剖腹吗？把刀插进腹部往胸部用力一剖，再横着用力一刀！ 

　　淋漓尽致！ 

　　为了祖国的尊严，你们谁敢！谁愿？！不敢就没有资格说日本人！ 

　　张自忠，是谁？ 

　　邱少云，还记得吗？ 

　　朝鲜战场上的两位特级战斗英雄是谁？ 

　　回答的出来吗？你知道他们的事迹吗？你知道他们是怎样死的吗？今天我们已经把他们遗忘了差不多了吧？ 

　　我们已经蜕变了，我们已经没有了精神，我们不配做中国人，我们的时代罕有英雄，罕有男子汉！我们丢了祖宗的脸，中国历史上从来没有一个时代象今天一样窝囊！ 
当然这指的不是我们的政府，而是我们的这一代人。 

　　我们的政府懂得强国之道，懂得什么叫忍辱负重，后发制人，我们的政府建立了丰功伟绩。 

　　而我们的青年，除了象狗一样叫几声，骂几声，无所作为。 

　　我们的祖先在历史上领先了几千年，多少英雄豪杰，多少王朝强盛之极天下之大，唯我独尊，侠客英雄，君子大家层出不穷，他们能够舍生取义，光明磊 
落，精忠报国，贫贱不能移，威武不能屈。 

　　而今天为了钱可以没有人格，更何况什么国家民族的尊严？！ 

　　没有想到，到了今天，中国已经找不到什么英雄！ 

　　即使有，也被官吏当作花瓶装饰一下政绩 !被一些白痴当做傻瓜猴子嘲笑！ 

　　今天是我们自己有人看不起中国传统的东西，它们是西洋的走狗！ 

　　日本人有靖国神社可以参拜，我们没有！也没有人要去！ 

　　烈士尸骨还在，名字已经消失...... 

　　我想找个给英雄下跪的地方！ 

　　我想请日本人告诉我当年是谁在中国的哪个地方和日军血战过！ 

　　不过日本人肯定不告诉我，我们的英雄已经战死几十年，日本人仍然害怕他们。 
 
 
但今天我们比抗日时有钱，日本人却变本加厉地唾弃我们！ 

　　这不能怪他们，我们是活该的： 

　　一面我们的尾巴翘得如此之高，欢迎日本的二流商品在中国称雄，陶醉于日本影片，崇拜日本明星，我宁愿他崇拜东条英机，将来成为中国的东条去灭了日本。 

　　一方面我们的下一代很多被娇生惯养，严肃的东西不看，中国历史一问三不知，中国的未来是一大群软骨头的孬种。 

　　当日本人在小学课本里彻底扭曲侵华历史时，我们的教育学家居然在讨论金庸武侠小说要不要入选中学教材！ 

　　更何况，我们不知从什么时候起，居然连英雄都唾弃。 

　　这已不是悲哀那么简单了！ 

　　在民族精神上，中国人不如日本人。 

　　日本人说：从总体上看，支纳人是世界上最低劣的种族。在总体素质上，南方支纳人又要远远优于北方支纳人......我们日本人（除了只会叩头的少数政客外）愿意称你们国家为支纳，不愿称它为中国，但我们称宋代以前为中国。我们轻视支纳人的一个原因是 ......我小的时候，父亲带我去日比谷公园，指着缴获北洋水师的战利品对我说，日本就是在打败支纳的北洋水师后，才成为世界上主要强国的。当我来到支纳的时候，我发现支纳人比我想象的还要低劣，他们对我这个毫无背景的日本学生点头哈腰，说什么都是日本的好...... 当我问他们支纳一个在韩战中为了完成任务宁愿被火烧死的英雄时，他们居然说那种傻瓜再也不会有了。我们日本有靖国神社......我们日本人将会永记为国殉死的英灵，他们在靖国神社里享受他们应得的敬意。每当我们唱起为国而逝的英魂啊，你要常常回到慈母的梦中，我们就会感慨万千，永志难忘。

我发现我们的教育太应试了，线型代数尤为突出，只有抽象的公式，会背就可以，这或许速度快一点，可是缺乏创造性。

Recently I heard my classmates complain about study, no matter it is Math, English, Computer or else. They tried to find out a way to study in pleasure, like watching a movie. I also had that sort of dissatisfaction and complaints in the past. Now I don’t believe there exists such a way.

When we are in the primary school, the teachers use toys to attract our attention and lead us patiently because we are lack of self-control at that time. This teaching method also made us live happily in the primary school because everyone needs a time to experience the original happiness when he has a pure and bright heart. But we learned little in the 6 years of primary study. As we moved to higher and higher grades, we are more and more mature. We don’t have that naive mind any more and feel it ridiculous when the teachers use toys to guide us. We had seen too many things and have the abstract concept before we entered the junior school. Without the need of seeing concrete objects, we began to study mainly from books. This is an effective way to learn knowledge, though seems boring.

Study is impossible to be done like watching movies or playing computer games. But it doesn’t mean that we cannot find pleasure. There really exists pleasure in study, but it’s not that kind. When you face a problem, will you work it out with confidence or just escape from it? Your braveness is shown in study. Not all the problems can be solved easily. Do you have the patience to think on it? Your persistence will be paid off. When your family face a problem, you use the knowledge learned from school to solve it. After your hard work, you helped your family by your own hands. Can’t you feel any happiness or pride? Of course you can. You’ll feel that every drop of sweat you’ve paid worth it. And you build up the passion and confidence to keep on study. Isn’t it more interesting and useful than some junk movies and computer games?

Why so many people feel the study boring? I think it is due to the lack of imagination on one hand, they are inundated with books too long. Under Chinese education system, most students have too much homework to do in 6 years of middle school. They have to face the simplex text and formulas all day but hardly have time to search something of the world themselves. So when it comes to an abstract concept, they can only understand the abstract meaning but cannot think of any concrete material. So they feel the books deadly dull. On the other hand, they have lost the natural interest in knowledge. We all need the pure heart to feel the pure happiness of exploration, comprehension and success. No matter how excellent he is, what he has achieved or where he lives, one must have interest, which is not on purpose, in work to do it well. From the great scientist Einstein to the amazing musician Chopin, they would achieve nothing without interest. Can you recall your happiness in childhood? I remember that when I was a grade 3 in high school, I worked out a math problem and told my teacher my methods. Then my teacher smiled and said: “You are so great!” It sounds like praising a pupil, but I feel very happy and excited, just like a child. I felt that no computer games can give me the same feeling, never. Many seniors with high marks say they enjoy tests. The statue of study should be like that: promoting something and discarding something, from the earlier stage.

There are too many things that keep us from concentrating on study, even in university. The free style let many of us form a lazy habit, full of conceit. There are cinemas in many universities and the tickets are very cheap; there are tennis courts, computer rooms in which e-games can be played; There are beautiful gardens, swimming pools, magazine stores. All above are positive things. You can hardly to imagine the life without amusement. Only prisoners and frontier defense soldiers have experienced that terrible feeling. But we should adhere to the principle of moderation. I have seen too many people indulging themselves in amusement because they couldn’t restrain their desires. Bad thoughts accumulated little by little. If you can’t judge yourself rightly and criticize yourself for wrongdoings, you won’t be able to control yourself one day. And trivia are very annoying. For example, lose purse. You would have to go many departments to restore your credit card, certificates and other important things besides money. And we have many issues for so called “moral education” to do, such as Long march, the tactics on national defense. they look good. But the some officers of university are formalists. They don’t tell us useful and true things. We cannot say our own mind freely on these issues, just praise them instead. So it’s hard to write 2000 words, because you are telling lies. This style is formed in over 1000 years and hard to change, especially in traditional universities.

It is very important to study effectively. First, a good way is to use imagination. If you do so, you will find reading books are like playing games, exciting, enjoyable, artistic. A good way to form imagination is reading novels. Second, you must have the ability to manage your time well, don’t let affairs knock you down. Third, often adjust your mentality, be optimistic and brave. You also need self-examination and self-control to walk straight but not go astray.