In Class at the Rabbit Pencil School(a)|玉兔铅笔学校，开学了

At the beginning of the school year, mothers would use kitchen knives to sharpen Rabbit brand pencils for their children, who would deposit the shavings in their pencil boxes. The faint aroma of the wood would accompany them through their school day. For older children, yellow-barreled and blue-capped Rabbit ballpoint pens as well as red-capped pens for correcting each other's tests were necessities in their schoolbags. The use of Rabbit pens and pencils was quintessential of people born in Taiwan during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Now, the old Rabbit factory has been successfully turned into the Rabbit Pencil School. It offers people a chance to relive the joys of their student days. They can also learn about the company's history and the stationery industry in Taiwan. This includes everything from the factory's founding, through Rabbit's boom period, and finally to the difficulties faced by Taiwanese manufacturers that pushed many of them to move their factories overseas.

When visitors set foot in the Rabbit Pencil School in Yilan's Wujie, it looks like a movie location set in the 1970s. When the bell rings, visitors, or students as they are called here, file into the classroom. The wooden desks even feature the chalk lines that students would draw to divide the desktops into two personal halves. The first period class features a video that offers information about the history of both pencils and Rabbit.

For second period, the guide, or teacher, brings the students into the factory. "Some of this machinery is 50 or 60 years old," notes Tang Zhi-tian, a member of the third generation of Tangs that runs Rabbit. For visitors, the nostalgic atmosphere prompts a lot of childhood memories as they learn about the history of Rabbit.

玉兔铅笔学校，开学了

　　开学了，妈妈拿着菜刀帮孩子削铅笔，孩子一旁收集起木屑放入铅笔盒中，好让淡淡的木香伴着书香上学。大一点孩子的书包里，则少不了那一支黄杆蓝帽的原子笔，还有相互批改考卷，戴红帽的红原子笔。对 4、5、6 年级生而言，玉兔原子笔与铅笔可以说是他们学校生活的共同记忆。

　　如今，老牌子玉兔文具工厂，成功转型为『玉兔铅笔学校』，带领人们重新体验学生时代的欢乐时光，也能了解这间公司的历史和台湾的文具产业，其中包括从文具工厂发迹，历经极盛时期到产业外移的困境。

　　走进位于宜兰县五结乡的玉兔铅笔学校，整座工厂彷佛就像 60年代的拍戏场景。钟声响了，『学生』们鱼贯进入教室，木头桌子的中间还有不得超越的粉笔界线。玉兔铅笔学校的第 1堂课：藉由录像带了解铅笔及玉兔的故事。

　　第 2 堂课，老师（导览人员）带着同学们进入工厂。『这些机具，有的年龄都超过 5、60岁了。』在铅笔学校导览的第 3 代经营成员唐志天表示。对游客来说，这氛围与情境，一下子就让人回到从前，沉浸在童年铅笔的记忆，也走入玉兔的历史。