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schoolhouse we learn our A-B-Cs,” and the second time, “In

the schoolhouse we learn our 1-2-3s.” [5]

Å Æ Ç È É
324 study
¿ The child in the little red schoolhouse is there for one reason
only: to study. Anyone who has gone through the schooling
system knows well enough that study is one thing and learning
quite another again. In the kanji, too, the character for learning
(frame 574) has nothing to do with the schoolhouse. [8]

Ð Ñ
325 memorize
· The idea of memorizing things is easily related to the school-
house; and since we have been at it for more than a hundred
pages in this book, the idea that memorizing involves seeing
things that are not really there should make it easy to put the
two elements together. [12]

Ü Ý
326 µourish
¼ The botanical connotations of the word µourish (to bud and
burst into bloom, much as a tree does) are part of the ideal of
the schoolhouse as well. [9]

å æ
* brush
¿ This primitive element, not itself a kanji, is a pictograph of a
writing brush. Let the ³rst 3 strokes represent the hairs at the