Like many students at the time, during the day Wu attended a Japanese style primary school, studied Japanese books, and spoke Japanese when he saw Japanese people, fully respecting the "no speaking Chinese" rules. But in local private schools they studied Chinese texts using Fukienese.
和不少同時代的孩子一樣，吳守禮白天上日式小學、讀日本書、看到日本人時就說日語，完全遵守日本人「不說漢語」的規矩；私底下卻在家鄉裡的私塾用閩南語讀漢文。