Way of Thinking, 考え方

It just dawned on me. I just figured out a part of how Japanese thinking (from what I've been told about through their writing style) manifests itself in conversation. Sato-sensei just asked me about how I learned Japanese. I was delighted, as I take pride in the methods I use, as well as how quickly I've advanced. Over the course of the conversation, the target subtly changed from how I learned, to how it applies to the school system here, to how a 7th grader would learn English, and finally ended with how using a Japanese alphabet to produce English sounds can be useful to slow learners. It was then I noticed he was making a worksheet that used a Japanese alphabet to do such a thing for what I can only assume will be used in a 7th grade classroom.
It was quite interested to follow through that mode of thinking and talking. I had been told that Japanese writing followed a similar, flowing path that started off somewhere else, moved toward the target, and then flowed onwards again. To experience it in action was pretty interesting.