Efficient Handwriting Practice Part 8: The Scariest Story in the World

The brain or the hand?
Which one learns first?

When I say "learning with the brain" here,
I mean "learning the rules of the characters."

Which do you think learns the correct characters first,
the brain,
or the hand?

That's right.
The answer is
that the "brain" learns first by an overwhelming margin.
The "hand" cannot keep up at all.
This
not only illustrates the importance of repetitive practice, but also shows that
it is more efficient to learn characters logically through rules.
When I watch children in the classroom,


I often see the situation where "they can explain the rules, but they can't write the character."
I can see that they can explain it in their own words,
solve quizzes logically,
and fully understand it in their heads.
They vividly demonstrate that
"knowing" does not equal "being able to do."
The speed of learning is
overwhelmingly faster for the brain,

and only after subsequent repetitive practice
does the hand finally, finally, finally... catch up.
This means...
This is not the time to be saying something as leisurely and pretentious as

"it is efficient to learn the rules of characters at the same time."
If you practice without knowing the rules,
...
something scary will happen.
Practicing wrong characters diligently without knowing the rules...
...you know what I mean, right?
Your hand will learn those incorrect characters.
If you know how scary it is that bad habits are hard to break,

you understand how scary this story is.

When people keep saying "rules, rules,"

it might give you a difficult impression,
but in fact,


that way is easier,
and that way is more efficient
for mastering correct and beautiful handwriting.
Knowing the principles and
putting them into practice (continuing to write) are
always parallel processes.

"Your body knows it."
If you can get your hand to learn the character
and make it so that your hand can only write that character,

nothing can beat that.
Nothing can beat "being able to write that character unconsciously."
In the classroom, I ask the children,
"Why do you think this character is so well-written?"
And it doesn't stop there; I also ask,



"What was the rule for this part?"
"Can you explain the common rule between this and this?"
"Tell me the rules within this character, anything is fine, as many as you can."
I ask them
like a demon.
(My tone is gentle, though. Maybe that makes it even scarier...)
Or rather than like a demon, I am a demon.
I think the children who answer those questions are amazing.
You can either walk the path of meeting a demon,
or walk the path where there is no demon, but
you are living out a "scary story."
It seems like I haven't digressed,

but I have, so I'll get back on track.
Summary
・Learning character rules and practicing are always parallel.

・You should just let your brain learn the rules first.
・If you perform repetitive training

　while holding those rules,
　your hand will come to write those characters unconsciously.
That is all.
If you have no intention of learning the rules,
or if it is impossible for you to learn the rules,
then
that's still better than...

It's not even at that level; it's that
you "don't know" the rules in the first place... "don't know"...
Sc-

sc-

scary...

There is no story scarier than this.

The scariest story in the world,

that non-fiction...
is overflowing in this world.

Actually,
"knowing" is fun.
"learning" is fun.
Just as children's eyes light up
when they learn new things,
I think that for adults too,
"knowing" things they didn't know before
is a fun thing.

Everyone, everyone...
must have definitely had a time
when "learning something for the first time" was so much fun.

Let's
"know" the rules of characters
with our eyes lighting up
just like in those days.

From the demon