最近读了《上学记》,何兆武先生娓娓道来一个远去的、恍若隔世的故事,他在书中写道:“姚从吾先生那时候是北大历史系主任,可是我们当年都觉得姚先生口才不好,讲得不能令人满意,所以不想上他的课。姚先生还教一门史学方法,也是历史系的必修课,我就听过两堂,总觉得还不如自己借本书,一个星期就看完了。而且我知道,好多同学都不上他的课,姚先生也从来不点名,到了学期末,我们把同学的笔记借来看看,应付考试。可后来姚先生到了台湾做了中央研究院的院士,而且台湾后来的一批中年骨干历史学家都是他培养出来的,真是出乎意料。可见以言取人、以貌取人是何等的不可靠。” Recently read << Schooling >>, Mr. He Zhaowu tells his own way a distant, introspective story, he wrote in the book: ’Yao from my husband was head of history at Peking University, but we were that Yao Mr. eloquence is not good, can not speak satisfactorily, so do not want to go to his class. Yao also taught a historiography, but also a compulsory course of history, I have heard two, always feel better than I borrow this book I finished reading a week, and I know that many students are not on his class, Yao never named, by the end of the semester, we take a borrowed note to take a look at the students to cope with the examination. But later Mr. Yao to Taiwan It has been quite surprising to have become an academician of the Academia Sinica and later a group of middle-aged backbone historians in Taiwan have come out. It is not surprising that we can see how people are treated in terms of words and appearances. "