The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH

The Educator 21
WORKABLE METHOD TO GET
STUDENTS TO DO THEIR BEST
WRITING IN ALL SUBJECTS
By Leona Gregory
Handwriting
Teachers'
It is indeed very difficult for students
to hurry from class to class
scratching out the notes given verbally
by teachers. It is not a very
easy task to concentrate on one's
handwriting- when his attention is focused
on the material and notes he is
writing. However, if students could
bi' made to understand that good penmanship
denotes a careful, conscientious
worker, a pei-son who is ever
striving for improvement and for a
wfll-iounded personality, he certainly
would improve his handwi-iting.
One of the first ways to get stu-
,. lents to do their best handwriting in
ill subjects is to get them interested
n ponmanship—show them that fluent,
leLnlde writing is worthwhile.
.\dw we must teach them the rules
for good writing—that is to observe,
to trace over the letters on the writing
card with a fine pencil, and next to
practice over and over until they
habituate the correct form. For if
they get the principals right, the rest
are mere matters of detail. We must
then show the students the "Short
Cuts to Plain Fluent Writing"—teach
them the correct, relaxed body position
and the correct method of holding
the pen and paper.
Try to make the student realize that
handwriting can ever be improved
try to teach them that perfection is
not just having, but it is reaching for
something better. Our greatest progress
consists not in never failing, but
in rising every time we fail.
The main idea is to give the students
a goal to work for—when we
have an aim. we improve.
This flourish and signature is from the pen of Frank A. Krupp
of the Interstate Commercial College of Fargo, N. Dak.
ALIBIS VS. ACHIEVEMENTS
Julius Caesar, the greatest statesman
and historian of his age, had an
alibi for failure. He was an epileptic.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a conumptive
and wi-ote most of his books
in bed.
Demosthenes, the world's greatest
Drator, was a stammerer in his youth.
He learned to speak clearly by pracicing
with pebbles in his mouth.
Teddy Roosevelt, one of this counry's
most dynamic chief executives.
f/as a weakling as a child. He lived
o head the famous Rough Riders.
ALIBIS—ALL OF THEM HAD
VLIBIS—BUT THEY WERE NEVER
JSED. Nothing ever comes from the
ise of alibis except failure; Achievenent
should be the goal of every righthinking
student, so let's put our peronal
alibi "on the shelf" and start in
ACHIEVING. THE GIST,
Golden College, Vi^ilmington, Del.
A club of subscriptions has been received
from Miss Ethel Kesterson, Supervisor
of Handwi'iting, Champaign,
Illinois. Miss Kesterson thinks so
much of the Educator that each year
she persuades a number of her teachers
to subscribe.
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Assignment
Dictionary
THE SMALL REVERSE OVAL DRILLS
for Capital letter practice is a new logical
countir.g evolution from the small oval to
the Capital.
OVER 2100 SELECTED WORDS are
phonetically grouped for practice on
definite lesson targets and at the same
time they produce balanced specimen pages.
Students always write with greater care
and ertort knowing that an attractive page
will be the result. This EVER-READY
book of assignments was compiled especially
to assist WRITING SUPERVISORS
and TEACHERS in upper grades and on
through Teachers' training classes.
"THE ASSIGNMENT DICTIONARY" is
printed entirely in a reproduced business
script. Many lessons are adapted to onefourth
inch ruling.
A TEACHERS* WORKING OUTLINE and
INSTRUCTIONS accompany each order.
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Pupils Write Better with
STEEL PENS
Pons that require less inking and flow
better penmanship. That's
why Gillott's are the standard in so many
schools. They assure neatness, accuracy and
better hand-writing.
Specify Gillott's Pens for your classes. Send
10c for a sample set of 8 pens. Try them
and note the improvement.
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