This paper aims to examine the nature of learning(學) in confucianism. Firstly, I briefly reviewed Confucius’s the learning. Second, Next, I investigatedthe process that Nishi Amane(西周) coined the word ‘philosophy’ and examined the meaning of ‘learning of Confucianism’, which had been disappeared in that word. Finally, I searched the essence of Confucian learning by means of the Myoakjje(廟學制), which is the characteristic feature in Confucian educational institutions. Confucius wanted to emulate his ideal person, Duke of Zhou, for a lifetime. The ‘learning’, which he had devoted for his whole life to, was ‘to be like his ideal human being. Nishi Amane(西周) is the first person to translate ‘Philosophia’as the word ‘Chulhak(哲學)’. But, he first translated ‘Philosophia’as ‘Hichulhak(希哲學)’ synonymous with ‘Hihyunhak(希賢學)’. Because he understood ‘Philosophia’ as a ‘Confucian learning’ of emulating ideal person. Nishi Amane, however, thought that confucian point of view, in particular, Chu Hsi learning’s standpoint interfered with the acceptance of western positivism and utilitarianism, so he removed the ‘Hi(希)’ from the ‘Hichulhak(希哲學)’. The term ‘Chulhak(哲學)’, which Nishiamane coined, had been spread to East Asia, and in addition, Western positivism and utilitarian philosophy had been spread. As the term had been spread to East Asia, only the ‘Chulhak(哲學)’ whicht puts the scientific method first is left, and ‘Hichulhak(希哲學)’ or ‘Hihyunhak(希賢學)’ has disappeared. The most important feature of Confucian educational institutions is Myoakjj, that places the learning space and the sacred space together. The architecture of Hyeonggyo(鄕校), Sungkyunkwan(成均館) and Seowon(書院) allows a learner to identify examples of life through a sacrificial rites. And it makes a learner respect models of life, to study the textbooks left by them, and to resemble them without knowing himself. And, the buildings symbolize the ‘learning’ as ‘going from everyday life to transcendental world’, ‘going from secular to divine’. And, that architecture symbolize ‘learning’ as ‘the great act’ that is the journey form the physical world to the metaphysical world.