清晨，鸟儿都不大叫了，他们知道今天是高考的好日子。当年则天皇后大冬天想看牡丹，命令“百花连夜发，不待晓风吹”，可惜牡丹不听话，结果被贬到洛阳。我想，如果她老（少？）人家如果那会儿下令科举开场，要拿牡丹花来装点考场，说不定牡丹仙子能欣然答应的。

看来，虽然我们的教育没做多少感人的事情，却做出了感天的业绩。它像雷峰塔一样坚守着它的事业，能把那么荒谬的事情做得那么持久而完美，能那么公开公正地让每个同学都平等起来，实在是更了不起的奇迹。

偶然看到哲学家兼数学家的怀特海在《数学引论》（1911）里说：

        当哥伦布第一次看到西海岸，皮萨罗（Pizarro）开始大西洋远航，富兰克林从风筝线感觉电流，伽利略第一次把望远镜对着天空——在这些历险和发现的历史性瞬间，人们不可能不感到激动和震撼。这样的瞬间也出现在抽象的思想领域的学生中，颠峰时刻应该是笛卡儿躺在床上发明坐标几何的那个早晨……

这段话令人想起康师傅在《纯粹理性批判》第二版序言里的那段宣言（Werner S. Pluhar英译本）：

Something dawned on all investigators of nature when Galileo let balls, of a weight chosen by himself, roll down his inclined plane; or when Torricelli made the air carry a weight that he had judged beforehand to be equal to the weight of a water column known to him; or when, in more recent times, Stahl converted metals into calx and that in turn into metal, by withdrawing something from the metals and then restoring it to them. What all these investigators of nature comprehended was that reason has insight only into what it itself produces according to its own plan; and that reason must not allow nature by itself to keep it in leading strings, as it were, but reason must-using principles that underlie its judgments-proceed according to constant laws and compel nature to answer reason's own questions….

    两种发现的乐趣，今天的同学恐怕难得享受了，也许要等雷峰塔倒掉的时候。