学 (traditional 學) shows a child (子) under a roof (冖), with hands and a symbol of learning above — a child in a house, receiving knowledge. The simplified form keeps the child at the bottom and crowns it with three small strokes for the busy hands of learning.
学 sits at the heart of a culture that has revered education for over two thousand years. 学生 = student ('one who learns to live'), 学校 = school, 同学 = classmate. Confucius opened the Analects with 学: '学而时习之,不亦说乎' — 'To learn and practice often, is that not a joy?'
A child (子) under a roof with busy little hands on top — LEARNING.
Right now, with 学, 中, and 文 you're almost able to say what you're doing: 我学中文 — 'I'm studying Chinese.' That's a real sentence about a real you.