Penman's Art Journal (Volume 2) - Iampeth

WRK^IIT'-S BUSINESfS
. AFFLETON Oi CO.,
Practical Hints on Teaching Penman-
DEO. 27, 1877.
My observation during a
than eighteen years, both
le Htudent
Publisliea 3IoiitUly, Mt viOG Kroad-vvny, f oi- SS 1 .OO jjor Y suitably supplied.
j, suitable for any calling in life is not teaching writing in our public schools is the There were in 1S70 only twenty-six
to be learned by patterning
buainesa
after printed selection of poor material. I have seen al- colleges in the United States,
copies of any
with 154 in-
si-ries of copy books alone ; but
uany different kinds of pens used as structors aud 5,825 students.
learned either by
There
the
are
skillful advice and e pupils iu the school—coarse, fine, to-day more than 131 business colleges
of a teacher who and
understands the
icratchy, .
stumpy, rusty— all kinds- commercial schools, with at least GOO
vith a thorough
teachers
course of practice on teacher and pupils alike indifferent as to their and 2.1.000 student.-^.
iment exercises, or through long expe- quality. A bad pen in a large unwieldy In the West, the business
e, either
colleges
in the
are
counting room or in some holder, alone is a sufficient cause of failure in largely attended, and rapidly
ofRce. The
growing
style of writing
in
acquired through trying to learn to write well, to say nothing favor, as a means of special
the
education.
use of copy Illi-
books in our schools is nearly of the poor ink that is commonly used. nois has the largest number
always
of thes^e
stiff, tramped and impossible,
schools
as any Another fault is that where copy books are of any State, or U business
good teacher
colleges;
of the art can tell you. The
Ohio
used pupils are often allowed to write in too has V>, and Michigan «,
teacher who simply gives his pupils a printed high numbers. Instead of requiring them The business college in
copy, or spreads
San
o,it before them
Prauciaco is
an en- thoroughly master the principles and let- attended by middle-aged
graved
people
chart,
of
and lets them
both sexes,
pattern after that,
is well as by the
about
young, and
fifteen or
seems to
twenty minutes a day
have
at
aught, in this respect, the true democratic
ipirit of special education.
teacher The
of penmanship,
business
co 'iuces me that
de&ires to succeed well iu teaching this art, colleger in some other cities
L-xcept perhaps will
also
never turn
are
out any becom-
practical business
lassify his pupils. There should be ing more and more scfiooh
in drawing, are teachers gtc rally so
writers.
poorly
While it is indeed tme
for the people
that
as
imita-
e thau two classes in any publicschool, well as for the young.
qnalilied to t€