The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH
The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH
The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Educator</strong> 21<br />
WORKABLE METHOD TO GET<br />
STUDENTS TO DO THEIR BEST<br />
WRITING IN ALL SUBJECTS<br />
By Leona Gregory<br />
Handwriting<br />
Teachers'<br />
It is indeed very difficult for students<br />
to hurry from class to class<br />
scratching out the notes given verbally<br />
by teachers. It is not a very<br />
easy task to concentrate on one's<br />
handwriting- when his attention is focused<br />
on the material and notes he is<br />
writing. However, if students could<br />
bi' made to understand that good penmanship<br />
denotes a careful, conscientious<br />
worker, a pei-son who is ever<br />
striving for improvement and for a<br />
wfll-iounded personality, he certainly<br />
would improve his handwi-iting.<br />
One of the first ways to get stu-<br />
,. lents to do their best handwriting in<br />
ill subjects is to get them interested<br />
n ponmanship—show them that fluent,<br />
leLnlde writing is worthwhile.<br />
.\dw we must teach them the rules<br />
for good writing—that is to observe,<br />
to trace over the letters on the writing<br />
card with a fine pencil, and next to<br />
practice over and over until they<br />
habituate the correct form. For if<br />
they get the principals right, the rest<br />
are mere matters of detail. We must<br />
then show the students the "Short<br />
Cuts to Plain Fluent Writing"—teach<br />
them the correct, relaxed body position<br />
and the correct method of holding<br />
the pen and paper.<br />
Try to make the student realize that<br />
handwriting can ever be improved<br />
try to teach them that perfection is<br />
not just having, but it is reaching for<br />
something better. Our greatest progress<br />
consists not in never failing, but<br />
in rising every time we fail.<br />
<strong>The</strong> main idea is to give the students<br />
a goal to work for—when we<br />
have an aim. we improve.<br />
This flourish and signature is from the pen of Frank A. Krupp<br />
of the Interstate Commercial College of Fargo, N. Dak.<br />
ALIBIS VS. ACHIEVEMENTS<br />
Julius Caesar, the greatest statesman<br />
and historian of his age, had an<br />
alibi for failure. He was an epileptic.<br />
Robert Louis Stevenson was a conumptive<br />
and wi-ote most of his books<br />
in bed.<br />
Demosthenes, the world's greatest<br />
Drator, was a stammerer in his youth.<br />
He learned to speak clearly by pracicing<br />
with pebbles in his mouth.<br />
Teddy Roosevelt, one of this counry's<br />
most dynamic chief executives.<br />
f/as a weakling as a child. He lived<br />
o head the famous Rough Riders.<br />
ALIBIS—ALL OF THEM HAD<br />
VLIBIS—BUT THEY WERE NEVER<br />
JSED. Nothing ever comes from the<br />
ise of alibis except failure; Achievenent<br />
should be the goal of every righthinking<br />
student, so let's put our peronal<br />
alibi "on the shelf" and start in<br />
ACHIEVING. THE GIST,<br />
Golden College, Vi^ilmington, Del.<br />
A club of subscriptions has been received<br />
from Miss Ethel Kesterson, Supervisor<br />
of Handwi'iting, Champaign,<br />
Illinois. Miss Kesterson thinks so<br />
much of the <strong>Educator</strong> that each year<br />
she persuades a number of her teachers<br />
to subscribe.<br />
Do You Want a Position?<br />
pusition comt to<br />
<strong>The</strong> Zanerian College of Penmanship,<br />
Columbus. Ohio<br />
612 N. Park St. Write for CircuU<br />
FOR SALE: Small bu<br />
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wife. Fine location an<<br />
expense. Some cas<br />
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Addrt<br />
—<br />
Assignment<br />
Dictionary<br />
THE SMALL REVERSE OVAL DRILLS<br />
for Capital letter practice is a new logical<br />
countir.g evolution from the small oval to<br />
the Capital.<br />
OVER 2100 SELECTED WORDS are<br />
phonetically grouped for practice on<br />
definite lesson targets and at the same<br />
time they produce balanced specimen pages.<br />
Students always write with greater care<br />
and ertort knowing that an attractive page<br />
will be the result. This EVER-READY<br />
book of assignments was compiled especially<br />
to assist WRITING SUPERVISORS<br />
and TEACHERS in upper grades and on<br />
through Teachers' training classes.<br />
"THE ASSIGNMENT DICTIONARY" is<br />
printed entirely in a reproduced business<br />
script. Many lessons are adapted to onefourth<br />
inch ruling.<br />
A TEACHERS* WORKING OUTLINE and<br />
INSTRUCTIONS accompany each order.<br />
Price Post Paid 33 cents per copy or<br />
Four for $1.00.<br />
B. A. O'MEALY<br />
Penman Author.<br />
2020 S. E. 56th Avenue<br />
PORTLAND OREGON<br />
Pupils Write Better with<br />
STEEL PENS<br />
Pons that require less inking and flow<br />
better penmanship. That's<br />
why Gillott's are the standard in so many<br />
schools. <strong>The</strong>y assure neatness, accuracy and<br />
better hand-writing.<br />
Specify Gillott's Pens for your classes. Send<br />
10c for a sample set of 8 pens. Try them<br />
and note the improvement.<br />
ALFRED FIELD & CO., Inc.<br />
93 Chambers St. New York. N. Y.<br />
SPECIALTY CARD-WRITING<br />
Ornamental Cards. 20c per dozen; Ladies' in<br />
script. Ci.lored. 25c per dozen. Bird Flourished.<br />
<strong>45</strong>c per dozen.<br />
Tamblyn Method.<br />
A. T. SOOERSTROM<br />
343 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles. Calif.