Just look at this photo and you’ll understand…The public elementary school teacher’s “miracle print” turned a child who hated kanji into a lover of kanji The more important thing when learning kanji is to read rather than write.

Kanji learning did not evolve from “writing things down in a notebook” for decades.

Kanji learning is a must for everyone when they become elementary school students. What kind of image do you have of learning kanji? Many people may have an image of “grit theory,” such as “writing the same characters over and over again,” or “just practicing in a notebook every day.” I was the same way. Ever since I was in elementary school, I hated doing kanji homework. I remember filling in the squares in my notebook haphazardly.

Then, as I grew up and became an elementary school teacher, something surprised me. The thing is that the kanji instruction I had received and the kanji instruction I had received since I became an elementary school teacher had not changed at all. As usual, the mainstream instruction was to have students write as many of the same kanji in their notebooks as possible.

Of course, psychological research has shown that it is essential to write repeatedly to a certain extent in order to learn letters, but this cannot be said to be true if you just force your child to write the letters over and over again. . Above all, if children start to dislike learning kanji because they are forced to write them over and over again, their learning results will drop dramatically. In fact, there were many children in elementary school who were struggling with “not being good at kanji.”